Download or read book Growing Up on Memory Lane written by Karen Glaesemann and published by Small Town USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of short stories about growing up in a small town.
Download or read book Memory Lane Wellington Ohio written by Alan Leiby and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-03 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic history of growing up in Wellington, Ohio
Download or read book Real Modern written by Bronwyn Labrum and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950s and '60s continue to exert a powerful fascination, but what was life really like? Featuring more than 500 objects and photographs from collections around New Zealand, Real Modern tells a vibrant and varied story of life in these familiar yet surprising times.
Download or read book Richard Aldington written by Vivien Whelpton and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Richard Aldington, outstanding Imagist poet and author of the bestselling war novel Death of a Hero (1929), takes place against the backdrop of some of the most turbulent and creative years of the twentieth century. Vivien Whelpton provides a remarkably detailed and sensitive portrayal of the writer from the age of thirty-eight to his death from a heart attack in 1962. The first volume, Richard Aldington: Poet, Soldier and Lover, described Aldington's life as a stalwart of the pre-war London literary scene, his experience as an infantryman on the Western Front and his postwar personal and creative crises; this second volume seeks to balance the stories of Aldington's subsequent public and private lives through a careful reading of his novels, poems and letters with his circle of acquaintances. The ways in which Aldington's dysfunctional childhood and survivor's guilt continued to haunt him through the inter-war years and beyond are masterfully untangled by an authorwith gifted psychological insight into her subject. Volume Two covers Aldington's personal and public lives as he transformed himself from poet to novelist and from novelist to biographer and explores his debacles and triumphs, particularly in the wake of his hugely controversial attack on the reputation of T.E. Lawrence. This authoritative biography recounts the life of one of the most underrated writers of the last century.
Download or read book Godfool written by Pádraig Standún and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wellington written by Jane Wellesley and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly personal, anecdotal family memoir of the Wellington legacy. Jane Wellesley is a member of one of Britain's most illustrious families. Her father, the 8th Duke of Wellington, was born in 1915, a hundred years after the first Duke's momentous victory over Napoleon at Waterloo, but only a little over sixty years after the death of his celebrated ancestor. When the 'Iron Duke' died Queen Victoria wept with the nation, mourning the loss of 'the greatest man England has known'. A million and a half people swarmed London's streets to watch his cortege pass on its way to St Paul's. Few facts can now be added about the public man, but Jane's family memoir animates the First Duke as husband and father, as brother and several degrees of grandfather. Her journey through this richly compelling family history begins and ends with the first Duke, visiting the battlefield of Waterloo with her father to set her fascinating tale in motion. Through her parents she reaches back to earlier generations, weaving together characters and places, establishing connections, and exploring in greater depth than usual the Wellington women, who are often reduced to footnotes in conventional histories. She unearths memories, visits places from her parents' past, and discovers much about the lives of her grandparents and the generations before them. Most of us view the First Duke of Wellington as an iconic figure, whose name has been claimed by pubs, squares, streets, and, of course, rubber boots. In this highly personal account, the public man gives way to the private, and Wellington's legacy is seen through the eyes of those who have followed in his footsteps. Jane Wellesley triumphantly succeeds in wresting the Duke from his lonely column to reclaim him for his family, and so for the reader.
Download or read book Memories of Montserrat written by Dr. Irene S. Prospere and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Irene S. Prospere has written a beautiful anthology of endemic colloquialisms from the perspective of one versed in the wit and nuances of the island people of Montserrat. Every syllable is heavily laced with the lilt and sharpness of a happy and carefree people, rich with the mixture of Irish brogue and colonial English. She conjures the sweet memories of her home and of days past, growing up with her siblings, cousins, and friends in her beloved village of Collins Ghaut in St. Johns, Montserrat. Walking barefoot to and from school and getting up before the sun to do all her chores are fond memories of a time long gone. The characters in her stories are family, her mother and father, her brothers Wellington, Daniel, Stanley, Clyde, and Everton and her sisters Mildred, Inez and Elizabeth (affectionately called Babylyn). Her main purpose in putting pen to paper is to capture all the memories, telling stories she heard of people she used to know and her many treasured friends, so that someday future generations can read Memories of Montserrat and never forget that the most important things in life are not riches or fame but family.
Download or read book Facing the Past written by Ann Beaglehole and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first book, A Small Price to Pay, Ann Beaglehole traced the experiences of European refugees to New Zealand in the 1930s. In Facing the Past she focuses on the lives of a younger generation – the children of those wartime immigrants, whose perceptions and experiences of both the old and the new world were very different from their parents'. At school, in the neighbourhood, or on the sportsfield, many of them were painfully aware of being 'outsiders' in a society unused to cultural diversity. Yet their need to belong was frequently complicated by loyalty to the very different ideals and expectations of their parents. As one of them comments I was getting two messages... the 'always remember,' message and the 'start from now' message. Based on a wide range of interviews as well as documentary evidence from second-generation refugees worldwide, this is a fascinating account of the lives of immigrant children growing up in the decades between the 1940s and 1960s.
Download or read book How Long Is Forever written by Kelly Carey and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Guess How Much I Love You will love figuring out how long forever is alongside Mason and Grandpa. Mason is waiting for Nana's blueberry pie and complains that it's taking forever. So Grandpa challenges him to figure out how long forever really is. Is it as long as Grandpa has had his tractor? No. As long as it took Nana to grow the roses to the top of the chimney? Not even close. After a trip around the farm to figure out the answer, Nana's pie is ready. And Mason's finally got the answer: forever is how long he'll love Nana's pie and how long he'll love Nana and Grandpa, too.
Download or read book Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia written by Anita Heiss and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile identities sit alongside those from newly discovered writers of all ages. All of the contributors speak from the heart – sometimes calling for empathy, oftentimes challenging stereotypes, always demanding respect. This groundbreaking collection will enlighten, inspire and educate about the lives of Aboriginal people in Australia today. Contributors include: Tony Birch, Deborah Cheetham, Adam Goodes, Terri Janke, Patrick Johnson, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Jack Latimore, Celeste Liddle, Amy McQuire, Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Miranda Tapsell, Jared Thomas, Aileen Walsh, Alexis West, Tara June Winch, and many, many more. Winner, Small Publisher Adult Book of the Year at the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards ‘Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia is a mosaic, its more than 50 tiles – short personal essays with unique patterns, shapes, colours and textures – coming together to form a powerful portrait of resilience.’ —The Saturday Paper ‘... provides a diverse snapshot of Indigenous Australia from a much needed Aboriginal perspective.’ —The Saturday Age
Download or read book The Kindertransport to Britain 1938 39 written by Andrea Hammel and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- The Kindertransports: An Introduction /Anthony Grenville -- The Kindertransport in British Historical Memory /Caroline Sharples -- Polish Kinder and the Struggle for Identity /Jennifer Craig-Norton -- Nicholas Winton, Man and Myth: A Czech Perspective /Jana Burešová -- Migration after the Kindertransport: The Scottish Legacy? /Frances Williams -- The Last of the Kindertransports. Britain to Australia, 1940 /Alexandra Ludewig -- From Europe to the Antipodes: Acculturation and Identity of the Deckston Children and Kindertransport Children in New Zealand /Simone Gigliotti and Monica Tempian -- The Ordeals of Kinder and Evacuees in Comparative Perspective /Edward Timms -- The Future of Kindertransport Research: Archives, Diaries, Databases, Fiction /Andrea Hammel -- Therapeutic Aspects of Working Through the Trauma of the Kindertransport Experience /Ruth Barnett -- Writing the Life of a Kindertransportee: Memories and Challenges /Leslie Baruch Brent -- From Other People's Houses into Shakespeare's Kitchen: The Story of Lore Segal and How She Looked for Adventures and Where She Found Them /Julia K. Baker -- The Experience of Space in Lore Segal's Other People's Houses /Lorena Silos Ribas -- 'You can't change names and feel the same': The Kindertransport Experience of Susi Bechhöfer in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz /Martin Modlinger -- '...um an der Verlegung der Schule nach England teilzunehmen.' Ein Gedenkstättenprojekt zur Erinnerung an die Kindertransporte aus Köln und der Region /Cordula Lissner and Ursula Reuter -- Refugee Voices (The AJR Audio-Visual Testimony Archive): A New Resource for the Study of the Kindertransport /Bea Lewkowicz -- The AJR Kindertransport Survey: Making New Lives in Britain /Hermann Hirschberger -- Index.
Download or read book Suva Stories written by Nicholas Halter and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suva Stories explores a fascinating tapestry of histories in one of the Pacific’s oldest and most culturally diverse urban centres, the capital of Fiji. Charting the trajectory of Suva from indigenous village to colonial hub to contemporary Pacific metropolis, it draws on a rich colonial archive and moving personal memoirs that bear witness to their time. The diverse contributions in this volume form a complex mosaic of urban lives and histories that contribute fresh insights into historical and ongoing debates about race, place and belonging. Suva Stories is a valuable companion to those seeking to engage with the city’s pasts and present, and will prompt new conversations about history and memory in Fiji.
Download or read book A Pulpit Tribute to the Memory of the Duke of Wellington being a sermon etc written by John Henry BOWHAY and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Up in England written by Anthony Fletcher and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an entirely fresh view of the upbringing of English children in upper and professional class families over three centuries. Drawing on direct testimony from contemporary diaries and letters, the book revises previous understandings of parenting and what it was like to grow up in the period between 1600 and 1914.Using advice literature which set out developing ideologies of childhood, gender and parenting, the book explores the separate but complementary roles of mothers and fathers in raising their children. Male upbringing is discussed in terms of schooling, female through the moral and social context of a domestic schoolroom dominated by a governess. Boys were trained for the world, girls for society and marriage. Rare teenage diaries surviving from the Georgian and Victorian periods show teenagers speaking for themselves about education; relationships with parents, siblings and friends; and their social, class and gender identity.
Download or read book Wellington and Waterloo written by R. E. Foster and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events which unfolded south of Brussels on 18 June 1815 conferred instant immortality on those who took part in them. For the Duke of Wellington, Waterloo consummated victory in a long battle for what he considered to be his due recognition. Whilst he guarded that reputation jealously, he also jeopardised it by his decision to enter politics in what proved to be an especially partisan age. Even the outpouring of national grief which accompanied his death in 1852 could not totally obscure the ambivalence he had aroused in life. The memory of Waterloo, meanwhile, followed its own trajectory. Travellers initially flocked to the battlefield as if drawn by a magnet. What the triumph meant for Britain, and the wider world, moreover, became a battle in itself, one fought variously in the political, literary and artistic theatres of war. As the nineteenth century advanced, it was only Waterloo's less-exalted participants who, relatively, faded from view – or were ignored. Drawing on many under-utilised sources to illuminate some less familiar themes, this timely study offers fresh perspectives on one of Britain's best-known figures, as well as on the nature of heroism. The reader is also given pause for thought as to appropriate forms of commemoration and how national celebrations are prone to manipulation, for their own purposes, by those in government.
Download or read book Growing Up M ori written by Witi Ihimaera and published by Tandem Press Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique insight into childhood stories from early this century through to recent times; from the country and, increasingly from the city; from those whoc had a totally Maori identity to those brought up in an almost completely Pakeha environment. In their own worlds, the contributers express feelings ranging from happiness to, in come cases, torment, of being Maori in a predominantly European environment.
Download or read book Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 3 written by John Docker and published by Kerr Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Docker grew up in Bondi, the son of Communist parents, his mother Jewish from the East End of London and his father of Irish descent. His Bondi is not the site of sunny mindlessness but rather a place of intense immigrant and political life. This book traces his often comic experiences at Bondi Wellington Primary School and Randwick Boys High School. At the University of Sydney from 1963, he became a teenage Leavisite and participated in the anarchistic New Left. With Ann Curthoys he travelled on the Hippie Trail through Asia to London, which became for both the scene of what Gorky referred to as the University of Life.
