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Author : Robert Francis Kilvert
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Kilvert's Cornish Diary written by Robert Francis Kilvert and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Toman
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718841778
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Kilvert's World of Wonders written by John Toman and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kilvert's World of Wonders takes a fresh look at the Victorian era, one that does not turn away from the smoke stacks and crowded streets of popular imagining, but which sees them from the distance of the rural countryside. Though a countryman and lover of country ways, here the well know diarist is shown to be deeply stirred by what he saw as a society being changed and improved by science, technology, and by the liberal, enlightened ideas that were starting to circulate. The social changes seen by Kilvert resonated with the vision of progress that was imbued in him by his Victorian upbringing, and as a result his diaries can be seen as a response to these changes and not, as previous Kilvert scholarship suggests, as a simple record of country life. Toman's new work goes beyond the biographical and social realities of Kilvert's family by comparing them to almost twenty other middle-class families in order to show common factors in the familial experience of a rapidly changing society. At the heart of this re-evaluation of Kilvert's life and times is the theme of Wonder, various aspects of which are explored throughout. Away from the rapidly growing urban centres the effects of industrialisation are seen in a surprisingly positive light by Francis Kilvert, a fervent Christian coming to terms with the encroachments that science, scepticism and secularism were making upon religious faith and yet seeing all around him a 'world of wonders'.
Author : William Plomer
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447499395
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Kilvert's Diary 1870-1879 - Selections from the Diary of the REV. Francis Kilvert written by William Plomer and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SINCE its first appearance in three volumes (1938–40) Kilvert’s Diary has become established as a minor classic. Its recognized place among the very best of English diaries has been gained by special qualities. It is the work of a man with a watchful eye and a clear style: Kilvert has the uncommon gift of making one see vividly what he describes. His detailed picture of life in the English countryside in mid-Victorian times is unmatched, and every sentence he writes helps to build up a self-portrait so personal and intimate that one gets to know him like a friend. Kilvert reveals himself as an essentially modest, innocent, truthful and unworldly young man, sociable, and with a strong love of life and of landscape, with a sense of drama and a good vein of humour. His life was strongly affected by two things–his susceptibility to the beauty of young women and girls, and his lack of money and of what used to be called prospects. As a faithful country clergyman, he moved with equal ease among people of both the landowning and labouring classes, and by both was welcomed equally. His good nature and good manners, his vitality, his love of children, and his practical sympathy with the unfortunate, won him much affection. If he did not question the values of his own class, he was never indifferent to sufferings which they permitted, and did what he could, with his evidently magnetic presence and voice, to lessen those sufferings. He knew that not far from the convivial and copious dinners and picnics, the lively croquet and archery parties, could be found loneliness, squalor, and hunger, and sometimes murders and suicides.
Author : Robert Francis Kilvert
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Diary of Francis Kilvert, June-July 1870 written by Robert Francis Kilvert and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kilvert's diary
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kilvert's diary written by Kilvert's diary and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deirdre Dare
Publisher : Hypatia Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781872229584
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (295 download)
Download or read book A Passion for Nature written by Deirdre Dare and published by Hypatia Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of Victorian botanist, social historian, and educator, Charles Alexander Johns (1811-1874), best known for the classic guide Flowers of the Field.
Author : Francis Kilvert
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1784875716
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Kilvert's Diary written by Francis Kilvert and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few have written more beautifully about the British countryside than Francis Kilvert. A country clergyman born in 1840, Kilvert spent much of his time visiting parishioners, walking the lanes and fields of Herefordshire and writing in his diary. Full of passionate delight in the natural world and the glory of the changing seasons, his diaries are as generous, spontaneous and vivacious as Kilvert himself. He is an irresistible companion. This new edition of William Plomer’s original selection contains new archival material as well as a fascinating introduction illuminating Kilvert’s world and the history of the diaries. ‘One of the best books in English’ Sunday Times 'Kilvert has touched and delighted (and mildly shocked) readers of his diaries ever since they were first published. New readers are in for a treat' Alan Bennett
Author : Alfred Lestie Rowe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349152811
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book A Cornish Anthology written by Alfred Lestie Rowe and published by Springer. This book was released on 1968-11-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 2280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 2280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
Author : Clifford Shaw
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750956526
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Folklore of Cornwall written by Clifford Shaw and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing alone at the bottom tip of England and despite the enormous influx of tourists it receives each year, Cornwall boasts many unique traditions. This volume touches on the wide variety of legends, songs and stories and their relationship with the rugged landscape: from standing stones and tales of sea-monsters and mermaids to ghosts, fairies and giants. The book looks at pagan ceremonies and old traditions, and the very Cornish love of singing. It further discusses the Cornish tongue, and the old language of Cornwall. And, of course, no study of Cornwall would be complete without some consideration of King Arthur and his legacy upon the folklore of the county.
Author : Arthur James Wells
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Total Pages : 1884 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Lounsberry
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813065380
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Virginia Woolf, the War Without, the War Within written by Barbara Lounsberry and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice Outstanding Academic Title In her third and final volume on Virginia Woolf’s diaries, Barbara Lounsberry reveals new insights about the courageous last years of the modernist writer’s life, from 1929 until Woolf’s suicide in 1941. Woolf turned more to her diary—and to the diaries of others—for support in these years as she engaged in inner artistic wars, including the struggle with her most difficult work, The Waves, and as the threat of fascism in the world outside culminated in World War II. During this period, the war began to bleed into Woolf’s diary entries. Woolf writes about Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin; copies down the headlines of the day; and captures how war changed her daily life. Alongside Woolf’s own entries, Lounsberry explores the diaries of 18 other writers as Woolf read them, including the diaries of Leo Tolstoy, Dorothy Wordsworth, Guy de Maupassant, Alice James, and André Gide. Lounsberry shows how reading diaries was both respite from Woolf’s public writing and also an inspiration for it. Tellingly, shortly before her suicide Woolf had stopped reading them completely. The outer war and Woolf’s inner life collide in this dramatic conclusion to the trilogy that resoundingly demonstrates why Virginia Woolf has been called “the Shakespeare of the diary.” Lounsberry’s masterful study is essential reading for a complete understanding of this extraordinary writer and thinker and the development of modernist literature.
Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787437
Total Pages : 3905 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 3905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.
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Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Local Historian written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melissa Hardie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Mere Interlude written by Melissa Hardie and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers about the Cornwall of writers such as Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, John Betjeman, D.H. Lawrence and Dylan Thomas. A full reprint of Hardy's short story A Mere Interlude, based in Penzance and the Isles of Scilly, is included.
Author : P. S. Barnwell
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Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Post-medieval Landscapes written by P. S. Barnwell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The formation of the landscape archaeological record is primarily a product of the post-medieval period' (Tom Williamson). This book reflects some of the most recent work in landscape studies of the period since 1500. It builds upon ideas and techniques pioneered by Hoskins in fields such as Anglo-Saxon topography and vernacular architecture, and also demonstrates how scholars are developing the subject conceptually, to examine landscapes as cultural artefacts, perceived differently by different groups within society.
Author : Steve Roud
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141941626
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland written by Steve Roud and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are black cats lucky or unlucky? What should you do when you hear the first cuckoo? Since when have people believed that it's unlucky to shoot an albatross? Why does breaking a mirror lead to misfortune? This fascinating collection answers these and many other questions about the world of superstitions and forms an endlessly browsable guide to a subject that continues to obsess and intrigue.
