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Book SynopsisSir George Beaumont is a key figure in the history of British art. As well as being a respected amateur landscape painter, he was a prominent patron, a collector, and co-founder of the National Gallery. William Wordsworth described Beaumont’s friendship as one of the chief blessings of his life, and this edition reveals that the two men became collaborators as well as companions. In addition to documenting unique perspectives on social, political, and cultural events of the early nineteenth century (providing new contexts for reading Wordsworth’s mature poetry), the letters collected here chart the progress of an increasingly intimate inter-familial relationship. The picture that emerges is of a coterie that – in influence, creativity, and affection – rivals Wordsworth’s more famous exchange with Coleridge at Nether Stowey in the 1790s. The edition includes an extended study of how Wordsworth and Beaumont helped shape one another’s work, tracing processes of mutual artistic development that involved not only a meeting of aristocratic refinement and rural simplicity, of a socialite and a lover of retirement, of a painter and a poet, but also an aesthetic rapprochement between neoclassical and romantic values, between the impulse to idealize and the desire to particularize. Trade Review'Jessica Fay's edition of the letters of the Beaumonts to the Wordsworths now makes possible a two-way understanding of their personal relationship as well as a new perspective on the creative relationship Wordsworth and Beaumont experienced. [...] Beaumont has left us an abundance of epistolary evidence to assess his impact on Wordsworth. In the words of Magnuson, these letters let us hear both sides of their conversation.' Richard Matlak, Review 19‘This archive of letters has not been unfamiliar to biographers, but no one has been willing to take on the labor of editing them in their entirety. We must be grateful that Jessica Fay has done so and that she has done it so splendidly. The annotation is exemplary… however; it is really two books in one. The volume appears in the Romantic Reconfigurations series from Liverpool University Press and reconfiguration is what Fay achieves. An introduction that is so substantial it could almost have appeared as a monograph on its own presents the most nuanced account yet of the Wordsworth-Beaumont relationship… [The Collected Letters] is another comparably significant contribution to Wordsworthian scholarship.’ Stephen Gill, The Wordsworth Circle‘[E]xemplary foundational scholarship… Fay’s volume also opens these intersections of aesthetics and politics to women’s voices… In Lady Beaumont’s thirteen letters to William and her many postscripts to her husband’s letters, we hear a voice that would stand her ground against some of Wordsworth’s most intransigent positions, such as his long opposition to Catholic emancipation.’ Eric C. Walker, European Romantic ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of LettersThe Creative Exchange between Wordsworth and BeaumontThe LettersPart I: 1803–1806Part II: 1807–1813Part III: 1814–1818Part IV: 1819–1827Part V: 1827–1829Appendix I: Lady Beaumont’s Reading: Thomas Barnard’s ‘Account of an English Hermit’Appendix II: Paintings Hung at Coleorton Hall

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Book SynopsisSir George Beaumont is a key figure in the history of British art. As well as being a respected amateur landscape painter, he was a prominent patron, a collector, and co-founder of the National Gallery. William Wordsworth described Beaumont’s friendship as one of the chief blessings of his life, and this edition reveals that the two men became collaborators as well as companions. In addition to documenting unique perspectives on social, political, and cultural events of the early nineteenth century (providing new contexts for reading Wordsworth’s mature poetry), the letters collected here chart the progress of an increasingly intimate inter-familial relationship. The picture that emerges is of a coterie that – in influence, creativity, and affection – rivals Wordsworth’s more famous exchange with Coleridge at Nether Stowey in the 1790s. The edition includes an extended study of how Wordsworth and Beaumont helped shape one another’s work, tracing processes of mutual artistic development that involved not only a meeting of aristocratic refinement and rural simplicity, of a socialite and a lover of retirement, of a painter and a poet, but also an aesthetic rapprochement between neoclassical and romantic values, between the impulse to idealize and the desire to particularize. Trade Review'Jessica Fay's edition of the letters of the Beaumonts to the Wordsworths now makes possible a two-way understanding of their personal relationship as well as a new perspective on the creative relationship Wordsworth and Beaumont experienced. [...] Beaumont has left us an abundance of epistolary evidence to assess his impact on Wordsworth. In the words of Magnuson, these letters let us hear both sides of their conversation.' Richard Matlak, Review 19‘This archive of letters has not been unfamiliar to biographers, but no one has been willing to take on the labor of editing them in their entirety. We must be grateful that Jessica Fay has done so and that she has done it so splendidly. The annotation is exemplary… however; it is really two books in one. The volume appears in the Romantic Reconfigurations series from Liverpool University Press and reconfiguration is what Fay achieves. An introduction that is so substantial it could almost have appeared as a monograph on its own presents the most nuanced account yet of the Wordsworth-Beaumont relationship… [The Collected Letters] is another comparably significant contribution to Wordsworthian scholarship.’ Stephen Gill, The Wordsworth Circle‘[E]xemplary foundational scholarship… Fay’s volume also opens these intersections of aesthetics and politics to women’s voices… In Lady Beaumont’s thirteen letters to William and her many postscripts to her husband’s letters, we hear a voice that would stand her ground against some of Wordsworth’s most intransigent positions, such as his long opposition to Catholic emancipation.’ Eric C. Walker, European Romantic ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of LettersThe Creative Exchange between Wordsworth and BeaumontThe LettersPart I: 1803–1806Part II: 1807–1813Part III: 1814–1818Part IV: 1819–1827Part V: 1827–1829Appendix I: Lady Beaumont’s Reading: Thomas Barnard’s ‘Account of an English Hermit’Appendix II: Paintings Hung at Coleorton Hall

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Book SynopsisA collection of writings based on Enzensberger’s personal experience as a left-wing sympathizer during the 1960s. Hans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as Germany’s greatest living poet, was already well known in the 1960s, the tempestuous decade of which Tumult is an autobiographical record. Derived from old papers, notes, jottings, photos, and letters that the poet stumbled upon years later in his attic, the volume is not so much about the man, but rather the many places he visited and people whom he met on his travels through the Soviet Union and Cuba during the 1960s. The book is made up of four long-form pieces written from 1963 to 1970, each episode concluding with a poem and postscript written in 2014. Translated by Mike Mitchell, the book is a lively and deftly written travelogue offering a glimpse into the history of leftist thought. Dedicated to “those who disappeared,” Tumult is a document of that which remains one of humanity’s headiest times. Table of ContentsNotes on a First Encounter with Russia (1963)Scribbled Diary Notes from a Trip Around the Soviet Union and Its ConsequencesPremises (2015)Memories of a Tumult (1967–1970)Thereafter (1970ff.)

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Book SynopsisThe Roman fort of Trimontium, near the village of Newstead in the Scottish Borders, is renowned internationally thanks to the work of James Curle (1862–1944), a solicitor in nearby Melrose. He led the excavations of 1905–1910, with their spectacular discoveries, and produced an exemplary publication. This volume brings together key sets of his correspondence which illuminate his intellectual networks and connections. They reveal a web of local, national and international contacts and travels that equipped him with an impressively broad knowledge of Roman provincial archaeology and turned him into a sought-after advisor for his expertise and knowledge of a range of topics, especially Roman pottery. Yet his interests went beyond the Roman military. His early interests in Swedish archaeology were rekindled after the Trimontium excavations, with a series of papers on aspects of Viking brooches, while a long-running interest in finds of Roman material beyond the frontiers of the empire shows his concern to understand the Iron Age societies of Scotland and Scandinavia. The letters are provided with a critical apparatus to explain their context, while introductory chapters consider Curle’s background, his local links, his connections with the great Romano-British archaeologist Francis Haverfield, and his wider antiquarian networks. The letters cast fresh light on the intellectual networks of the early 20th century, when professional archaeology was still in its infancy and gifted amateurs such as James Curle played a key role in laying the foundations on which scholarship still builds today.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. James Curle and his Letters Chapter 3. An Introduction to Trimontium Chapter 4. James Curle and his Archaeological World Chapter 5. Curle and Haverfield Chapter 6. James Curle: A Man of Melrose Chapter 7. Glimpses of the Dramatis Personae Chapter 8. Letters to Hercules Chapter 9. From Greece and Rome Chapter 10. My Dear Haverfield Chapter 11. From Home and Abroad Chapter 12. Miscellanea Appendix. Letters between the British Museum and A.O. Curle Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBorn in September 1891, Arthur Graeme West was a quiet and self-effacing youth with a passion for literature, who went on to become a keen Oxford scholar. When war broke out in 1914, for some time it left him untouched. However, in January 1915, in a rush of enthusiasm, he enlisted as a private in the Public Schools Battalion. From that time, until his death in April 1917, his life was a succession of training in England and fighting in France, with short intervals of leave.West joined due to a feeling of duty and patriotism, but the war was to have a profound effect on him. He developed an intense abhorrence of army life and began to question the very core of his beliefs in religion, patriotism and the reason for war. This growing disillusionment found expression in two particularly powerful war poems, _God! How I Hate You, You Young Cheerful Men_ and _Night Patrol_, which stand deservedly alongside those of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.In August 1916, he became a second lieute

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Book SynopsisKey documents relating to Auchinleck's career up to the First Battle of El Alamein in July 1942, including his time as Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army and of the Middle East Theatre. The outbreak of war in 1939 saw the then Lieutenant General Claude Auchinleck recalled to England to take command of the newly formed 4 Corps. Between April and June 1940 he commanded British troops in the ill-fated Norway campaign. He then returned to the UK to take command of 5 Corps in Southern Command during the invasion threat of 1940. In January 1941 Auchinleck returned to India and started some much needed reforms of what was still, very much, a 'colonial army' before becoming C in C Middle East in June 1941. In the Middle East, Auchinleck faced many challenges in commanding a multi-national force, largely composed of 'citizen soldiers' and his problems were complicated by the demands of Winston Churchill, an anxious Prime Minister who desperately wanted to show his allies and the British public a major victory. Auchinleck is open to the charges that he did not fully understand armoured warfare and that he appointed a number of the wrong men to key posts. However, he did manage to fight Axis forces to a standstill at the First Battle of El Alamein in July 1942 before being replaced by the team of Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander and General Bernard Montgomery. This volume is based on the Auchinleck papers held in the John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester and aims to bring these important records to a much wider audience.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Norway, 1940 2 Southern Command and the Defence of the United Kingdom, 1940 3 Commander in Chief, India, 1940-41 4 Commander in Chief, Middle East, 1941-42 Biographical Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe diary of an officer in the 6th Royal Dublin Fusiliers covering 1914-19 and four theatres of war. Noël Drury (1884-1975) was from a middle-class Dublin Protestant family and served most of the First World War as an officer in the 6th Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the 10th (Irish) Division. The division was the first of Ireland's wartime volunteer formations to be posted overseas, arriving at Gallipoli in August 1915 in the Suvla Bay landings. Drury and his battalion experienced several key phases of the Gallipoli campaign before being redeployed to Salonika in October 1915. Drury was away from his battalion for a year in 1916-17 suffering from malaria, but rejoined in Palestine towards the end of 1917. From there his battalion was sent to the Western Front in the summer of 1918 to take part in the Hundred Days Offensive. Drury's diaries describe training, daily life, contrasting theatres of the war, and show what it meant to be an Irish officer in the British army.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Volunteering and Training, September 1914-July 1915 2 The Voyage to the Dardanelles, July-August 1915 3 Gallipoli: Landing at Suvla Bay and the Next Ten Days, 7-17 August 1915 4 Gallipoli: Digging In, 18 August-October 1915 5 The Serbian Front and the Battle of Kosturino, October-December 1915 6 The Salonika Front and Hospital, December 1915-September 1917 7 Egypt and Palestine, September-December 1917 8 Defending Jerusalem and the Battle of Tell 'Asur, December 1917-July 1918 9 France, July-11 November 1918 10 Armistice, 12 November 1918-11 March 1919 Appendices Biographies Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA three-volume collection of the papers and correspondence of economist Roy F. Harrod, dating from the period between World Wars I and II.Trade Review’Besomi’s collection is a valuable primary source for those interested in the development of economic thought up to the end of 1939.’ -- Warren Young, Journal of the History of Economic Thought’This is a monumental piece of scholarship made possible by years of hard archive work and documentary organization concerning one of the most prominent authors in the history of economics . . . Besomi's work on Harrod, in short, is bound to occupy a privileged place on the shelves of all those who are eager to understand the economic theory in its historical evolution throughout the twentieth century.’ -- Storia del Pensiero Economico‘The Collected Interwar Papers and Correspondence of Roy Harrod has been edited in exemplary fashion by Daniele Besomi. . . Scholars will be grateful to Besomi as Harrod’s papers are now scattered over three continents, including holdings in three Japanese universities. His editorial enterprise in assembling this collection has been most valuable. The volumes enable the reader to understand the background to the development of Harrod’s thinking at a time when he was making important contributions to economic theory.’ -- Nicholas H. Dimsdale, Oxford Economic Papers’A magnificent, fascinating, scholarly edition of the correspondence of an economist at the centre of two of the “revolutions” of the interwar period. Essential reading for those concerned with the development of economics of those years.’ -- Donald E. Moggridge, University of Toronto, Canada’These volumes stand out as an outstanding editorial, documentary and scholarly achievement. They bring together Harrod’s professional correspondence, some of his unpublished and published essays, providing an impressive body of evidence about Harrod’s intellectual biography and environment. It will become standard reference for any study on the history of economic ideas of the interwar period.’ -- Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, Italy’Roy Harrod made important contributions to the theory of the firm and international trade not to mention cycle and growth theory, he was more than a mere dabbler in philosophy, and he frequently ventured into policy debates. If his own particular ideas about how economics should be done, and policy implemented, ultimately didn’t catch on very widely, they were nevertheless an important element in the intellectual ferment that marked our subject’s development before its codification by post-war syllabus designers and textbook writers. A prolific correspondent and journalist, Harrod probably left too full a written record of his own thoughts on the issues of the day, both within economics and on the policy scene, for the entire good of his own posthumous reputation. But this record is an invaluable source for any historian of economic thought in inter-war Britain who wants to get a flavour of the excitement and diversity that surrounded its development. In this sense indeed, Harrod’s weakness as a self-censor is a positive advantage. There was a good deal more to British economics in that era than Keynes and his Revolution, but it has sometimes been difficult to see things from any other perspective. Besomi’s collection of Harrod’s inter-war papers and correspondence makes it a little easier to inspect a sometimes familiar landscape from an alternative viewpoint, and for that reason alone it will be an invaluable source for scholars. We should all make sure that we have easy access to it in future, either in our own or our universities’ libraries’ -- David Laidler, University of Western Ontario, Canada’Roy Harrod (1900-1978) was an eminent economist who made seminal contributions to several fields, most notably to business cycle theory and modern growth theory in the 1930s and 1940s. He also was official biographer of Keynes and served Churchill as a statistical adviser at the beginning of World War II. Daniele Besomi (born 1960) is the author of The Making of Harrod’s Dynamics (1999) and an impressive number of journal articles which have illuminated Harrod’s work from various perspectives. For this scholarly work Besomi received the highest honours from the two leading international associations for the history of economic thought. This three-volume collection of Harrod’s interwar correspondence and papers, edited by Besomi, is fascinating reading. It is a presentation of a rich set of correspondence between Harrod and other leading economists of his time and a collection of formerly relatively inaccessible essays and press items which are a gold-mine for every scholar interested in the genesis of modern growth economics or Harrod’s role as a public intellectual.’ -- Harald Hagemann, University of Hohenheim, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Volume I: Correspondence, 1919–35 Foreword Editorial Introduction Textual Symbols and Abbreviations Acknowledgements General Introduction Correspondence 1919–35 Bibliography • Volume II: Correspondence, 1936–39 Correspondence Undated Letters Personal and Routine Correspondence First Line Index Index of Letters by Correspondent Bibliography • Volume III: Essays and Press Items Essays Press Items Documents Not Found Biographical Register Bibliography Names and Subject Index

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Book SynopsisLetters of an important clergyman that provide a well-informed and lively commentary upon the religion, politics and society of the time. The letters of Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808) illuminate the career and opinions of one of the most prominent and controversial clergymen of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His petitions for liberalism within the Church of England in 1772-3, his subsequent resignation from the church and his foundation of a separate Unitarian chapel in London in 1774 all provoked profound debate in the political as well as the ecclesiastical world. His chapel became a focal point for the theologically and politically disaffected and during the 1770s and early 1780s attracted the interest of many critics of British policy towards the American colonies. Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Priestley and Richard Price were among Lindsey's many acquaintances.Trade ReviewGrayson Ditchfield has served scholars superbly with this edition in every respect. It comes complete with an extended introduction, a catalogue of the letters (a handful have been located since the first edition was published) and an admirably comprehensive index. * HISTORY *Professor Ditchfield has provided a resource which is of outstanding, reliable and lasting merit and which will provide easy access for those whose research crosses the path and career of Theophilus Lindsey for years to come. We cannot but be grateful. * TRANSACTIONS OF THE UNITARIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY *Table of ContentsThe later career of Theophilus Lindsey, 1789-1808 Short biographies of recipients of Lindsey's letters in Volume II Editorial note List of Lindsey's letters in Volume II (381-783) The Letters, 1789-1808 Appendix I: Letters of Theophilus Lindsey from 1747 to 1788 not included in Volume I Appendix II: A list of letters to Theophilus Lindsey, 1751-1807

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Book SynopsisBreakdown and attempted suicide, and co-tenancy of Kelmscott Manor with Morris, balanced by usual professional concerns. The best of these letters, flowing rapidly from his pen, radiate charisma and enthusiasm, warmth and care for his friends, and a total engagement with art and literature. JULIAN TREUHERZ, BURLINGTON MAGAZINE [on I. and II.] These years were the most tumultuous of Rossetti's life. His breakdown and attempted suicide inevitably makes the letters of this period exceptionally poignant, but the volume contains many letters relating to his life and work. Throughout most of 1871 he was writing and painting; he became, with William Morris, a co-tenant of Kelmscott Manor, bringing him close to Jane Morris and also to the two Morris daughters. In October the name of Robert Buchanan entersthe letters as the likely author of 'The Fleshly School of Poetry', and an alarming unease can be sensed. Following his attempted suicide and eventual return to Kelmscott, the letters increase in number - affectionate, considerate and businesslike by turns, with a certain morbidity at times; many letters are concerned with helping Ford Madox Brown's application for the Slade Professorship at Cambridge. The wider world of Victorian London is present: Turgenev comes to dinner, Browning sends his new volumes, Swinburne arrives drunk, and the American poet and adventurer Joaquin Miller makes himself known to the Rossetti circle. Nine appendices include five devoted to Poems and one tothe Fleshly School controversy.Trade ReviewI should like to draw initial attention to the publication by D.S. Brewer of these three splendid volumes [4,5 and 6] .... Scholarship of this quality does not come cheap, but deserves to be supported by all who value it. [...] Rossetti's letters are those of a man fully engaged with whatever he undertook, and it is a great pleasure to salute these volumes from D.S. Brewer. * THE JOURNAL OF WILLIAM MORRIS STUDIES *Fredeman's magnificently edited, annotated, appendixed and indexed edition, which is also beautifully produced, is testimony to an immensely impressive editorial labour of love. [...] * . *Fredeman has reproduced, sourced and annotated every known letter by Rossetti, and provided appendices in which one seems to be reading the story of a whole generation.[...] * . *This is a magnificent work of scholarship, long overdue and to be warmly welcomed. In it, the story of these turbulent years in Rossetti's life is told again, not by a biographer recharging a well-known legend, but by an editor scrupulously sifting and reassessing small pieces of evidence. * TLS *

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. 2009 was the bicentenary of the birth of the English writer, translator, critic and amateur artist Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake (1809-1893). Bringing together a comprehensive collection of her surviving correspondence, the Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake reveals significant new material about this extraordinary figure in Victorian society. The scope of Lady Eastlake’s writing is wide and interdisciplinary, which recommends her as a significant figure in Victorian culture, giving rise to revelations about the ways in which different cultural activities were linked. Lady Eastlake lived for extended periods of time abroad in Germany and Estonia, and wrote an early work about her impressions of the Baltic, her subsequent writing took the form of reviews for the periodical press, including reviews of Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, Ruskin, Coleridge, and Madame de Stael. She also wrote on women’s subjects, including articles on the education of women. However, the great proportions of her publications are art-related reviews: she wrote one of earliest critical texts on photography and produced several essays on artists. The lively correspondence of Lady Eastlake not only contributes to a more holistic understanding of nineteenth-century culture, it also shows how a well connected woman could play an important role in the Victorian art world.Trade ReviewSpirited and outspoken, Lady Eastlake had a significant impact on the life of mid-Victorian London. Julie Sheldon’s meticulous edition of her rich correspondence makes a powerful contribution to our understanding of the cultural controversies of the period, and of the part that a confident and well-connected woman could play in these debates. Dinah Birch, University of LiverpoolTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction The Letters 1830 1834 1835 1836 1837 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 Chronological Bibliography of Works by Elizabeth Eastlake Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisToddler in tow, Bee Rowlatt embarks on an extraordinary journey in search of the life and legacy of the first celebrity feminist: Mary Wollstonecraft. From the wild coasts of Norway to a naked re-birthing in California, via the blood-soaked streets of revolutionary Paris, Bee learns what drove her hero on and what’s been won and lost over the centuries in the battle for equality. On this biographical treasure hunt she finds herself consulting a witch, a porn star, a quiet Norwegian archivist and the tenants of a blighted council estate in Leeds – getting much more than she bargained for. In her quest to find a new balance between careers and babies, Bee also discovers the importance of celebrating the radiant power of love in all our lives.Trade ReviewRowlatt’s passion for Wollstonecraft leaps out of every page, the intervening centuries disappear: it’s as if they are on a journey together. -- TV historian Dan SnowRowlatt’s travelogue is always entertaining as she explores the life and times of the ever passionate and never compromising Wollstonecraft who, more than two centuries on, still has much to teach us. * The Independent *A fascinating and hilarious adventure with champion tea-drinker Bee Rowlatt in In Search Of Mary: The Mother Of All Journeys. On her quest, toddler in tow, she searches for the celebrity feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. * The Big Issue *Her determination and research into her heroine is fascinating, and leads her to some very outlandish places indeed. * The Brighton and Hove Independent *An excellent exploration of the rights and roles of women, two centuries apart. * The Independent Books of the Year: The best biography and memoirs of 2015 *Unputdownable. * Historical Novel Society *It’s brilliantly funny, poignant and important... Laugh, cry and be moved by the original feminist adventure with the brilliant Bee Rowlatt as your fun-loving friend. -- Shami Chakrabarti

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Book SynopsisNicholas Hagger’s literary, philosophical, historical and political writings are innovatory. He has set out a new approach to literature that combines Romantic and Classical outlooks in a substantial literary oeuvre of 2,000 poems including over 300 classical odes, two poetic epics, five verse plays, three masques, two travelogues and 1,200 stories. He has created a new philosophy of Universalism that focuses on the unity of the universe and humankind and the interconnectedness of all disciplines, and challenges modern philosophy. He has presented an original historical view of the rise and fall of civilisations, and proposed - and detailed - a limited democratic World State with the power to abolish war and solve all the world’s problems. Selected Letters draws together those of his letters (written over 60 years) that aid the interpretation and elucidation of his works. Many of his correspondents are well-known figures within literature, philosophy, history and international politics, and Hagger is in the footsteps of Alexander Pope in editing his own letters, which are in the tradition of Pope, Wordsworth, Keats, T.E. Lawrence, Ezra Pound and Ted Hughes (one of his correspondents). They throw light on all aspects of Hagger’s vast output, and are required reading for all interested in following the growth of his Universalism, his literary development and his innovatory approach to universal truth. NICHOLAS HAGGER is a poet, man of letters, cultural historian and philosopher. He has lectured at universities in Iraq, Libya and Japan, where he was a Professor of English Literature. He has written 54 books. These include an immense literary offering, most recently King Charles the Wise and Visions of England (both also published by O-Books), and innovatory works within history, philosophy and international politics and statecraft. His archive of papers and manuscripts is held as a Special Collection in the Albert Sloman Library at the University of Essex. In 2016 he was awarded the Gusi Peace Prize for Literature, and in 2019 the BRICS silver medal for ‘Vision for Future’.

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Book Synopsis"We had been instructed to start promptly at six, since the hall was needed again at eight. We pushed through the curtained doorway, like instrumentalists without instruments, and onto the stepped stage. The audience was still coming in. Uncertain of our running time, and with no one to introduce us, I thought we had better start. I got as far as 'Byr - ' when Alan decided he did indeed need his glasses. He delivered his rehearsed ad lib, claiming that his vanity was second only to Byron's, and put on his specs." It is July 1981, and Alan Bates succumbs to a fit of nerves as he and Frederic Raphael attempt to carry off an underrehearsed performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. This wry glimpse behind the scenes of the London literary scene sits, in Raphael's notebooks, amid clear-eyed analysis of the riots and social unrest then erupting in Britain's cities under Margaret Thatcher's government. Compulsively readable, by turns mischievous and coruscating, this latest volume of Raphael's reflections casts light on a period that saw the beginnings of a decisive shift in British and American culture. Along the way, there are finely incised pen-portraits of public figures ranging from Shirley Conran to Peter Sellers and from Robert Redford to Mary Whitehouse.Trade Review"Shrewd, funny, gossipy and elegantly written, it combines rueful self-analysis with perceptive and, one suspects, all too accurate character assessments of well-known contemporaries, together with musings on Lord Byron, drama in ancient Greece and the state of the nation under Thatcher." --Jeremy Lewis, Literary Review "This is a thoroughly enjoyable read. Diaries promise indiscretions, and the joy of gossip... Is it right to invoke Pepys or Evelyn? When Personal Terms have concluded they will prove to be Raphael's lasting work, so perhaps it is." -- Wynn Wheldon, Spectator "There are entries in this fifth volume of Raphael's notebooks that would sound profound in any grove of academe, some one-liners that would now be perfectly fit for Twitter, some that are permissibly snarky comments on colleagues and rivals, and some that smartly pocket the small coin of everyday living. And that's only to pitch the first few pages to you ... read on at random for the full variety and vitality of Raphael's genius for recording the primary sources of a rich writing life." --"Times "on "Ifs and Buts"Table of ContentsIntroduction 1979 1980 1981 Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a tailor’s son saving souls, a reluctant radical, a hammerman poet, a spellbound princess, pauper apprentices, pioneering women, profligate printers and patriots publishing in protest against the authorities who sent so many to ‘certain death’ in the First World War. Some became famous: J.R.R. Tolkien, Wilfred Owen, John Betjeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, Vera Brittain, Edith Sitwell and Laurence Binyon, whose name is recollected wherever For the Fallen is read. Most were obscure, yet their memoirs, letters and journals, often disregarded in recorded history, are preserved here. This is what makes the collections a rarity and so appealing. Family memories of the first B.H. Blackwell and the diaries of his son and first apprentices document everyday life against the backdrop of the book trade, and also present a tableau of nineteenth and twentieth-century history ranging far beyond Oxford. The third B.H. Blackwell (Sir Basil) collected their stories, singling out Rex King whose diaries, 1918–1940, contain an astonishing reading list and a mordant dissection of the texts amounting to a critique of early twentieth-century English culture; rich fodder for any book or cultural historian. Rex King, like all the characters in this book, wrote for posterity. And Rita Ricketts, a consummate storyteller, has ensured that they will be read by a new generation.

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Book SynopsisThis five-volume set brings together the surviving letters penned by Harriet Martineau, the nineteenth-century writer and women's rights advocate. Throughout her fifty-year career, Harriet Martineau''s prolific literary output was matched only by her exchanges with a range of high-profile British, American and European correspondents. This set focuses on the letters written by Martineau, contextualising the correspondence through annotation of the highest standard. This book is a unique and highly valuable resource for students of, and others interested in, the history of feminism.

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Book SynopsisBorn in Scotland, Dr William Hunter (1718-83) pursued an extensive medical education in Glasgow, Edinburgh, London and Paris. He settled in London where he made his name as an anatomist and obstetrician before being elected to the Royal Society in 1767. This book presents all of his known correspondence, drawing upon archives around the world.

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Book SynopsisIncludes all known letters written and received by the poet during this period.

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Book SynopsisIncludes all known letters written and received by the poet during this period.

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Book SynopsisThe novelist J.G. Farrell - known to his friends as Jim - was drowned on August 11, 1979 when he was swept off rocks by a sudden storm while fishing in the West of Ireland. He was in his early forties. Had he not sadly died so young,A" remarked Salman Rushdie in 2008, there is no question that he would today be one of the really major novelists of the English language. The three novels that he did leave are all in their different way extraordinary.A" The Siege of Krishnapur, the second of Farrell's Empire Trilogy, won the Booker Prize in 1973, and it was selected as one of only six previous winners to compete in the 2008 international 'Best of Booker' competition. The strength of American interest in Farrell's books is underlined by the inclusion of all three Trilogy novels in the Classics imprint of the New York Review of Books. Troubles won the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010. Many of these selected letters are written to women whom Jim Farrell loved and whom he inadvertently hurt. His ambition to be a great writer in an age of minimal author's earnings ruled out the expense of marriage and fatherhood, so self-sufficiency was his answer. Books Ireland has astutely portrayed him as 'a mystery wrapped in an enigma, a man who wanted solitude and yet did not want it, wanted love but feared commitment, reached out again and again but, possibly through fear of rejection, was always the first to cut the cord.' But Farrell's kindness, deft humour and gift for friendship reached across rejection, which must account for why so many such letters were kept. Funny, teasing, anxious and ambitious, these previously unpublished letters to a wide range of friends give the reader a glimpse of this private man. Ranging from childhood to the day before his death, Farrell's distinctive letters have the impact of autobiography.Trade ReviewJohn Banville, in his introduction to this engrossing and haunting book, describes Farrell's loss as 'little short of a disaster for English fiction'; he is surely right. For anyone interested in what makes a person a writer, and how the life of a professional writer is lived, it is matchless-Sunday Times, Robert Harris 'A moving and memorable portrait, one that his many fans will want to have; and not only fans but, increasingly, students. [His] was an unusual voice, speculative and whimsical [and] its very timbre is audible here.'- Irish Times, Derek Mahon

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Book SynopsisThis Library of America volume (along with its companion) evokes an extraordinary period in American history—and in American journalism. Martha Gellhorn, Ernie Pyle, John Hersey, A.J. Liebling, Edward R. Murrow, Janet Flanner: in a time when public perceptions were shaped mainly by the written word, correspondents like these were often as influential as politicians and as celebrated as movie stars. This second volume traces the final eighteen months of the war: the campaign in Italy and the Southwest Pacific, the Normandy invasion, the island battles from Saipan to Iwo Jima, the liberation of Paris, the Battle of the Bulge, the fall of Berlin, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here are Ernie Pyle bearing witness to war in the infantrymen’s foxholes; A.J. Liebling on D-Day; Robert Sherrod and Tom Lea landing with Marines and registering the horrors of Pacific Island warfare; Martha Gellhorn and Edward R. Murrow indelibly reporting on the liberation of Dachau and Buchenwald. Here too are two great book-length works, included in full: Bill Mauldin’s Up Front, the classic evocation of war from the GI’s point of view, complete with his famous cartoons, and Hiroshima, John Hersey’s compassionate account of the first atomic bombing and its aftermath. Writers who covered the home front are included as well: S.J. Perelman on the absurdities of wartime advertising, James Agee on the impact of wartime newsreels, E.B. White on the United Nations conference in San Francisco. Here too are writers on aspects of the war still often neglected: Vincent Tubbs and Bill Davidson on the combat role of African-American soldiers; Susan B. Anthony II on working in the Navy Yard; I.F. Stone protesting U.S. government inaction in the face of Nazi genocide. This volume contains a detailed chronology of the war, historical maps, biographical profiles of the journalists, explanatory notes, a glossary of military terms, and an index. Also included are thirty-two pages of photographs of the correspondents, many from private collections and never seen before.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Book SynopsisAlexander Hamilton, the subject of Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash hit Broadway musical, comes to life in his own words in this critically acclaimed collection, which also includes conflicting eyewitness accounts of the duel with Aaron Burr that led to his death. One of the most vivid, influential, and controversial figures of the founding of America, Hamilton was an unusually prolific and vigorous writer. As a military aide to George Washington, critic of the Articles of Confederation, proponent of ratification of the Constitution, first Secretary of the Treasury, and leader of the Federalist Party, Hamilton devoted himself to the creation of a militarily and economically powerful American nation guided by a strong, energetic republican government. His public and private writings demonstrate the perceptive intelligence, confident advocacy, driving ambition, and profound concern for honor and reputation that contributed both to his astonishing rise to fame and to his tragic early death.Arranged chronologically, this volume contains more than 170 letters, speeches, pamphlets, essays, reports, and memoranda written between 1769 and 1804. Included are all fifty-one of Hamilton’s contributions to The Federalist, as well as subsequent writings calling for a broad construction of federal power; his famous speech to the Constitutional Convention, which gave rise to accusations that he favored monarchy; and early writings supporting the Revolutionary cause and a stronger central government. His detailed reports as Secretary of the Treasury on the public credit, a national bank, and the encouragement of manufactures present a forward-looking vision of a country transformed by the power of financial markets, centralized banking, and industrial development.Hamilton’s sometimes flawed political judgment is revealed in the “Reynolds Pamphlet,” in which he confessed to adultery in order to defend himself against accusations of corrupt conduct, as well as in his self-destructive pamphlet attack on John Adams during the 1800 presidential campaign. An extensive selection of private letters illuminates Hamilton’s complex relationship with George Washington, his deep affection for his wife and children, his mounting fears during the 1790s regarding the Jeffersonian opposition and the French Revolution, and his profound distrust of Aaron Burr. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.Trade Review"Remarkably comprehensive. . . . Perhaps we ought to revise our estimate of who precisely deserves the title of 'father of the Constitution.'" — Gordon S. Wood, The New Republic"Selected with sense and savvy. . . . Firmly establishes Hamilton's place in the American pantheon." — Joseph J. Ellis, The New Yorker"A generous and intelligent anthology of Hamilton's writings." — Caleb Crain, The New York Times Book Review"Anyone interested in politics, finance, diplomacy, history, or the fascination of a strange all-American life will want to have this Library of America volume."— Los Angeles Times

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Book SynopsisThis Library of America volume collects 367 letters written by Theodore Roosevelt between 1881 and 1919, as well as four of his most famous speeches, creating a vivid portrait of the public career and the private thoughts of an unparalleled man.Addressed to his family, as well as a wide range of correspondents that includes Jacob Riis, Florence Kelley, Rudyard Kipling, Georges Clemenceau, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Hay, Owen Wister, Upton Sinclair, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s letters demonstrate the astonishing range of his interests and deeds and reveal the personal dimensions of one of our greatest statesmen.Roosevelt describes climbing the Matterhorn, hunting grizzly bears and cougars, reading Anna Karenina while pursuing thieves through the Dakota wilderness, playing with his children, mediating the 1902 anthracite coal strike and the Russo-Japanese War, visiting Panama during the digging of the canal, and being shot while running for president in 1912. The letters records his expert knowledge of birds and wildlife, his fascination with history and historical writing, his changing views on race and the conflict between business and labor, his concerns about declining birth rates and the corrupting influence of luxury, his contempt for impractical reformers and pacifists, and his disappointment and rage at the failings of William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson. And, most poignantly, they reveal the pride and worry Roosevelt felt when his sons went off to battle in World War I, and the profound grief he experienced when his youngest child was killed.Also included are four speeches: “The Strenuous Life,” a defense of American rule in the Philippines (1899); “National Duties,” which popularized the phrase “speak softly, and carry a big stick” (1901); “Citizenship in a Republic,” with its famous praise of “the man in the arena” (1910); and “The New Nationalism,” which signaled Roosevelt’s break with Taft’s conservatism (1910).LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Book SynopsisA moving, unforgettable tribute to a Tutsi woman who did everything to protect her children from the Rwandan genocide, by the daughter who refuses to let her family's story be forgotten. The story of the author's mother, a fierce, loving woman who for years protected her family from the violence encroaching upon them in pre-genocide Rwanda. Recording her memories of their life together in spare, wrenching prose, Mukasonga preserves her mother's voice in a haunting work of art.Trade Review"Radiant with love... The Barefoot Woman powerfully continues the tradition of women’s work it so lovingly recounts. In Mukasonga’s village, the women were in charge of the fire. They stoked it, kept it going all night, every night. In her work — six searing books and counting — she has become the keeper of the flame." --The New York Times"A profoundly affecting memoir of a mother lost to ethnic violence. . . A loving, urgent memorial to people now "deep in the jumble of some ossuary" who might otherwise be forgotten in time." --Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)"The memories of childhood, a lost home, a mother who sacrificed herself are the pounding heart of the book, and Mukasonga has produced a work that anyone who might read it will remember." --Eleni Theodoropoulos, Literary Hub, Best Translated Novels of the Decade"This is an important book written for a strong and loving woman." --BOOKish (A Must Read Fiction Selection)"Mukasonga is a master of subtle shifts in register — a skill inherited, perhaps, from the Rwandan traditions of intricate courtesy and assiduous privacy that Stefania maintained. She turns everything over restlessly: In her prose, poignant reminiscences sharpen into bitter ironies, or laments reveal flashes of comedy, determination, defiance." --The New York Times Book Review"The Barefoot Woman is simultaneously a powerful work of witness and memorial, a loving act of reconstruction, and an unflinching reckoning with the Rwandan Civil War. In sentences of great beauty and restraint, Mukasonga rescues a million souls from the collective noun 'genocide', returning them to us as individual human beings, who lived, laughed, meddled in each other's affairs, worked, decorated their houses, raised children, told stories. An essential and powerful read." --Zadie Smith"A loving tribute to a strong mother and a striking work of memoir. . . Extraordinarily, this story is at times horrifying in its content and at other times playful; lyric in its style and tender in its handling of the central character. While the reader's knowledge of the genocide to come hangs over the narrative, the everyday events often retain a quotidian feeling; Stefania and her neighbors worry over their children but also laugh and celebrate and arrange marriages. As a literary work, this establishes a rare balance. Jordan Stump's translation from the French beautifully conveys this sense of both tragedy and day-to-day joy. . . This is an adoring, gorgeously rendered memorial to a mother and testimony to a people." --Julia Kastner, librarian and blogger at pagesofjulia, in Shelf Awareness“I will read anything and everything by Scholastique Mukasonga, who writes in French and is translated by Jordan Stump. Mukasonga’s writing is beautiful, lucid, and moving about the most chaotic and devastating experiences. Her work astounds me in a way that few writers do. I return again and again to the haunting opening of The Barefoot Woman, her memoir about her mother, Stefania, who was murdered in the Rwandan genocide. The memoir itself is how the narrator keeps a broken childhood promise to her mother, ‘my sentences weave a shroud for your missing body.’ In September, I look forward to reading Igifu, a story collection published by Archipelago.” --Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers, in Restless Books"The Barefoot Woman is a gorgeous book, elegantly written in a way that almost lets you forget how much trauma is woven into every paragraph...a piercing book about the space between fear of death and death itself, and how traditions can sustain a community between those terrible moments. And after, if only in memory." --Mark Athitakis, On the Seawall"The Barefoot Woman is lyrical but also informative and ethnographic, as much a memoir of a mother as it is of her way of life. ... Mukasonga has done far more than remembering and recognizing the human beings she grew up with; she has immortalized them." --Helen Epstein, The Arts Fuse"The Barefoot Woman is a living-record document, the voice of culture, tradition, and hope as well as a representation of the history lived by a group of Tutsi during the Rwandan genocide. It is a great performance where language has the stage, where words are revered and carefully chosen." --World Literature Today "Thirty-seven members of award-winning novelist Mukasonga’s Tutsi family were killed by Hutus in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. She was the only survivor. Her new memoir focuses on her mother Stefania, whose primary emphasis was on saving her children from those who considered Tutsis “cockroaches”, coming up with survival strategies, hiding places, paths to safety. Mukasonga describes Stefania’s daily life in Rwanda, and in various lands of exile, hoe in hand, tilling the soil, sowing, weeding, harvesting in cycles of beans, corn, and sorghum. It’s a way of life now gone. The Barefoot Woman is a tribute born of the horror of her mother’s 'poor remains dissolved into the stench of the genocide’s monstrous mass grave', crafted by a daughter who hopes that her 'sentences weave a shroud for [her] missing body.' --Jane Ciabattari, BBC Culture "Ever clear and laudable...is Mukasonga’s consistent portrayal of her mother as a guardian of the family and of Rwandan lore and customs in the deadly wake of expulsion and exile." – Angela Ajayi, --The (Minneapolis) Star Tribune"The fiercest of wars are fought by so many invisible heroes. The boldest of warriors will take on hell, descend into its depths, armed with a fiery love and set it differently alight. And even though this is a threnody, it is also a soaring story of grace, of faith, family, friendship, in-betweenness, and keeping just one nightmare away from the bogeyman; of Stefania who lived beyond boundaries, including those limits defined by those who would, and did, destroy a body, but never, oh no, not ever the dauntless soul of this, the most intrepid of mothers, a woman who drank fully of life, with a love that throbs through ever word in this epigrammatic book. A daughter’s lyrical tribute, The Barefoot Woman is a resonant revelation." --Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, author of Dust "Scholastique Mukasonga’s tender paean to motherhood and community (originally published in French in 2008 and seamlessly translated by Jordan Stump) explores how exile robs people of their traditions and identity . . . The Barefoot Woman is an extraordinary tribute to 'Mother Courage,' as well as a timely reminder of war’s devastation." --Lucy Popescu, The Guardian

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Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs—and one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning writer—an outstanding selection of great letters from ancient times to the 21st century, touching on power, love, art, sex, faith, and war.Written in History: Letters that Changed the World celebrates the great letters of world history, and cultural and personal life. Bestselling, prizewinning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects letters that have changed the course of global events or touched a timeless emotion—whether passion, rage, humor—from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Some are noble and inspiring, some despicable and unsettling, some are exquisite works of literature, others brutal, coarse, and frankly outrageous, many are erotic, others heartbreaking. It is a surprising and eclectic selection, from the four corners of the world, filled with extraordinary women and men, from ancient times to now.Truly a choice of letters for our own times encompassing love letters to calls for liberation to declarations of war to reflections on life and death. The writers vary from Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great to Mandela, Stalin and Picasso, Fanny Burney and Emily Pankhurst to Ada Lovelace and Rosa Parks, Oscar Wilde, Chekhov and Pushkin to Balzac, Mozart and Michelangelo, Hitler, Rameses the Great and Alexander Hamilton to Augustus and Churchill, Lincoln, Donald Trump and Suleiman the Magnificent.In a book that is a perfect gift, here is a window on astonishing characters, seminal events, and unforgettable words. In the colorful, accessible style of a master storyteller, Montefiore shows why these letters are essential reading and how they can unveil and enlighten the past—and enrich the way we live now.

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