From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses. In Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s Steven King...
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Author:King, StevenSummary: -
Author:Johnston, DavidSummary:From our present Governor General, a series of 50 (of several thousand) carefully chosen letters he has written to people he has admired and befriended over his seventy-plus years, that sets out Mr. Johnston's frank, informed, and novel...
- Author:Feynman, Richard P.Summary:
Few scientists have enthralled more people than Richard P. Feynman, the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Six Easy Pieces and Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Beloved for his engaging character and zest for life, he is an...
- Author:Ishiguro, LauraSummary:
Nothing to Write Home About uncovers the significance of British family correspondence sent between the United Kingdom and British Columbia between 1858 and 1914. Drawing on thousands of letters, Laura Ishiguro offers insights into...
- Author:Mozart, Wolfgang AmadeusSummary:
Contents: The significance of Mozart -- Chips from the workshop -- Concerning the opera -- Musical pedagogics -- Touching musical performances -- expressions critical -- Opinions concerning others -- Wolfgang, the German --...
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Author:Hayden, TylerSummary:Mother’s Message in a Bottle is an inspirational collection of over 40 letters from mothers around the world to the people they love. The aim of the book is to provide direction, wisdom, and connection between mothers and their children...
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Author:Summary:Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland-one of Canada's most beloved writers and one of Canada's most significant publishers-enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, readers gain rare insight into the private...
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Author:Williams, Helen MariaSummary:Helen Maria Williams was a poet, novelist, and radical thinker deeply immersed in the political struggles of the 1790s. Her Letters Written in France is the first and most important of eight volumes chronicling the French Revolution to...
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Author:ANTHONY, Hubert LawrenceSummary:"An extraordinary insight into the war experiences of a very young man, and the relationship between a son and his mother, during the horrors of Galipoli and its aftermath ... Sapper Hubert Anthony was seventeen when he enlisted in...
- Author:Laurence, MargaretSummary:
The books of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy are among the most beloved in Canadian literature. In 1976, when both were at the height of their careers, they began a seven-year written correspondence. Laurence had just published her...
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Author:Hebb, RossSummary:What was the First World War really like for Maritimers overseas? This epistolary book, edited by historian Ross Hebb, contains the letters home of three Maritimers with distinct wartime experiences: a front-line soldier from Nova...
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Author:Hayden, TylerSummary:Father’s Message in a Bottle is an inspirational collection of over 60 letters from fathers around the world to the people they love.
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Author:Summary:To millions of kids, the books they read are more than entertainment - they are mirrors to hold up to their own lives. And the creators of those books are more than just writers - they are mentors, confidants, friends, sometimes the...
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Author:Sexton, AnneSummary: -
Author:Goodall, JaneSummary:The woman who devoted her life to studying chimps in Africa looks back on her life, from her early love of animals to her years in the bush observing primates, often sacrificing life's more stable pleasures.
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Author:Summary:"A Queer Love Story presents the first fifteen years of letters between Jane Rule--novelist and the first widely recognized "public lesbian" in North America--and Rick Bébout, journalist and editor with the Toronto-based Body Politic,...
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Author:Newbold, L. Iris, Newbold, K. Bruce, Walters, Evelyn A., Walters, Mark G.Summary:Private James Herbert (Herb) Gibson was 26 years old when he volunteered for service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War. Born near Perth, Ontario and descended from Scottish settlers, Gibson enlisted against his...
