Download or read book Hetta and William written by Jacob Empson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of being brought up a household established by two bohemians of their age. Hetta and William met as fellow students at the 'liar's school', an induction course for new recruits to the BBC Foreign Service during World War 2. He was an established poet and literary critic, an academic whose career had been blighted in the UK. She was an orphaned South African, an aspiring sculptor, and a member of the Communist Party. Their marriage was to last over 40 years. Soon after the end of the war they took their two sons with them to Peking, where the civil war was resuming, and the Chinese Communist Party was to establish the new People's Republic. Oddly enough, their open marriage worked very well in the expatriate community. On their return to England William was able to resume an academic career in the north of England. Hetta stayed in London. The vicissitudes of their relationship made for an interesting life for the boys, who where sometimes being looked after by childless relations, sometimes roughing it on their own in the huge house that their parents had bought in Hampstead during the war. It was a life of privilege as well as neglect, but never dull.
Download or read book William Empson Volume II written by John Haffenden and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Empson (1906-1984) was the foremost English literary critic of the twentieth century. His public life and travels took him through many of the major events of the modern world. This compelling account is the second of two volumes exploring his remarkable life and work.
Download or read book The Diaries of William Charles Macready 1833 1851 written by William Charles Macready and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of London written by Christine Levy and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of London from 1960's to Present Day is a fascinating history of London during the last several exciting decades. It covers such diverse topics as politics, fashion, music and memorable events. The author offers her personal perspective from the time she moved out of the North East of Yorkshire in the 1960's and into North West London, where she married a film director, had three children and led a colourful life. The author's experiences are presented in an anecdotal format that addresses topics such as friends, local gossip and events. This book will appeal to people who know and remember London from the 1960's to the present, as well as anyone else who is interested in how Londoners live and survive their hectic work and social lives.
Download or read book Vital Records of Abington Massachusetts Births v 2 Marriages and deaths written by Abington (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Letters of Robert Lowell written by Robert Lowell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 893 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These letters document the evolution of Lowell's work and illuminate another side of his life: his deep friendships with other writers, his manic depression, his marriages to three prose writers, and his involvement with the antiwar movement of the 1960s.
Download or read book Burial Grounds of Christ Church written by Edward L. Clark and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christ Church Philadelphia and its Burial Ground is the final resting place of seven signers of the Declaration of Independence and five signers of the U.S. Constitution, the most famous burial being Benjamin Franklin. Also buried on church grounds are early American leaders, prominent lawyers, medical pioneers, and military heroes. In 1864, Church Warden Edward Clark compiled this book of all visible inscriptions in and around the church and at the 5th Street Burial Ground.
Download or read book Peking Story written by David Kidd and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking, where he married the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family. "I used to hope," he writes, "that some bright young scholar on a research grant would write about us and our Chinese friends before it was too late and we were all dead and gone, folding into the darkness the wonder that had been our lives." Here Kidd himself brings that wonder to life.
Download or read book Survey of Medieval Winchester written by Derek Keene and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the fourteenth century Winchester had lost its former eminence, but in trades, manufactures, and population, as well as by virtue of its administrative and ecclesiastical role, the city was still one of the major provincial centres in England. This Survey is based on a reconstruction of the histories of the houses, plots, gardens, and fields in the city and suburbs between c. 1300 and c. 1540, although in many instances both earlier and later periods are also covered. The reconstruction takes the form of a gazetteer (Part ii) of 1,128 histories of properties, together with accounts of 56 parish churches and the international fair of St. Giles, all illustrated by detailed maps. There is also a biographical register (Part iii) concerning more than 8,000 property-holders, most of whom lived in Winchester. This is the first time that it has been possible to piece together such a precise and detailed picture of both the topography and the inhabitants of a medieval town. Part i of the book contains a full discussion of the significance of this material and, in a manner relevant to an understanding of life in medieval towns in general, describes and defines such matters as the evolution of the physical environment, housing, land-tenure, property values, the parochial structure, the practice and organization of trades, and the ways in which the citizens of Winchester adapted to the declining status of their city.
Download or read book Texas Bride written by Leigh Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on a mission of vengeance against the man who betrayed him, Owen, a Civil War veteran, finds himself distracted by Hetta Gwynne, a proud woman who is determined to win back her ranch, and soon finds himself forced to choose between love or revenge.
Download or read book Words in Air written by Elizabeth Bishop and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that "you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend." The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling "picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry," and she once begged him, "Please never stop writing me letters—they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I've been re-reading Emerson) for several days." Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowell's death in 1977. Presented in Words in Air is the complete correspondence between Bishop and Lowell. The substantial, revealing—and often very funny—interchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two of America's most beloved and influential poets.
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