Download or read book The Life and Letters of William Sharp and Fiona Macleod Volume 2 1895 1899 written by William F. Halloran and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What an achievement! It is a major work. The letters taken together with the excellent introductory sections - so balanced and judicious and informative - what emerges is an amazing picture of William Sharp the man and the writer which explores just how fascinating a figure he is. Clearly a major reassessment is due and this book could make it happen.  —Andrew Hook, Emeritus Bradley Professor of English and American Literature, Glasgow University William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and for more than a decade "Fiona Macleod" duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as William Butler Yeats and, in America, E. C. Stedman. Sharp wrote "I feel another self within me now more than ever; it is as if I were possessed by a spirit who must speak out". This three-volume collection brings together Sharp’s own correspondence – a fascinating trove in its own right, by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, and George Meredith – and the Fiona Macleod letters, which bring to life Sharp’s intriguing "second self". With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. Halloran, this richly rewarding collection offers a wonderful insight into the literary landscape of the time, while also investigating a strange and underappreciated phenomenon of late-nineteenth-century English literature. It is essential for scholars of the period, and it is an illuminating read for anyone interested in authorship and identity.

Download or read book The Greatest Lives and Letters Volume 2 written by Sir John Alexander Hammerton and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VICTOR HUGO Deeds and Words I.--Right and Law II.--Days of Childhood III.--Before the Exile IV.--Republican Principles V.--In Exile VI.--After the Exile MARTIN HUME The Courtships of Elizabeth I.--Foreign Philandering II.--The Nine Years' Comedy III.--Catholics and Heretics IV.--The Lovelorn Alençon V.--The Battle of Wits The Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots I.--Betrothed in her Cradle II.--Intrigue, Plot, and Intrigue III.--Prudence Overcome by Passion IV.--Dire Infatuation V.--Langside and After WASHINGTON IRVING Life of Christopher Columbus The Years of Waiting The First Voyage (August, 1492--March, 1493) The Second Voyage (September, 1493--June, 1496) The Third Voyage (May, 1498--October, 1500) The Fourth Voyage (May, 1502--November, 1504) Life of George Washington Conflicts with the French The Dawn of Independence Declaration of Independence The Winning of Independence The Years of Peace JOSEPHUS Autobiography I.--Priest of the Blood-Royal II.--The Prelude to the Great Crisis III.--Governor of Galilee IV.--The Failure of His Foes JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART Life of Sir Walter Scott Early Years The Poet's Education Marriage Early Poems Scott's Chief Poems The Waverley Novels Abbotsford The End of All The Life of Robert Burns I.--The Poet in the Making II.--The Loves of a Peasant Poet III.--Burns at His Zenith IV.--The Clarinda Romance V.--Closing Years of the Poet's Life MARTIN LUTHER Table Talk God's Word and Book God's Dealing with Us Points from "Popedom" Patristic Literature Hints for Preachers Time's Forelock Modern Luxury Ministers and Matrimony Miscellaneous Topics Strong Opinions Outworn by Time Characteristic Sayings MIRABEAU Memoirs I.--"The Hurricane" II.--Into Political Life III.--For King and People IV.--President of the National Assembly THOMAS MOORE Life of Byron I.--Ancestors and Early Days II.--The Poet Finds Himself III.--Byron's Unfortunate Marriage IV.--Wanderings and Work V.--A Bewildering Personality JAMES COTTER MORISON Life and Times of St. Bernard I.--The Early Days of a Useful Life II.--A Great Preacher and Essayist III.--St. Bernard and the Second Crusade JOHN MORLEY Life of Richard Cobden I.--On the Road II.--The Corn Laws III.--Cobden and Bright IV.--In the Cause of Peace V.--Cobden as Treaty-Maker VI.--The Last Days of Cobden SAMUEL PEPYS Diary I.--"God Bless King Charles" II.--The Plague III.--The Great Fire IV.--Of the Badness of the Government V.--The End of the Diary PLINY THE YOUNGER Letters To Cornelius Tacitus To Minucius Fundanus To Septicius Clarus To Avitus To Baebius Macer To Cornelius Tacitus To Calpurnia, His Wife To Germinius To the Emperor Trajan CARDINAL RICHELIEU Political Testament Retrospect Of Education Of the Nobility Of the Disorders of Justice To the Officers of Finance Of the People Reason and Government Public Interests First The Power of Kingship The Whole Duty of Princes JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Confessions Madame de Warens Three Years in Turin Seeking a Career Our Little Circle Les Charmettes The Gathering Gloom LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Memoirs Court Intrigues Richelieu's Death Under Mazarin's Rule Wars of the Fronde MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ Letters Love for her Daughter The Brinvilliers Affair Devotion Love of Life The Order of God The Prince of Orange and England Old Age ROBERT SOUTHEY The Life of Nelson I.--A Captain at Twenty II.--In the Mediterranean III.--St. Vincent and the Nile IV.--Lady Hamilton V.--Trafalgar MADAME DE STAAL Memoirs A Convent Child Thrown on the World Political Intrigues In the Bastille EARL STANHOPE Life of William Pitt I.--The Boy Statesman II.--The Regency Problem III.--The Struggle with France IV.--Resignation V.--The Last Ministry ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY The Life of Thomas Arnold, D.D. I.--Youth and Early Manhood II.--Headmaster of Rugby III.--As Teacher and Preacher IV.--Influence of the Great Teacher AGNES STRICKLAND Life of Queen Elizabeth I.--The Lady Elizabeth II.--Mary Stuart and Saint Bartholomew III.--The Hour of Mary's Doom IV.--Elizabeth's Closing Years JONATHAN SWIFT Journal to Stella LONDON, Sept. 9, 1710. LONDON, NOV. 11, 1710. CHELSEA, June, 1711. LONDON, July, 1711. LONDON, Dec. 1, 1711. LONDON, Dec. 20, 1711. LONDON, Feb. 26, 1712. LONDON, April 6, 1713 LYOF N. TOLSTOY Childhood, Boyhood, Youth I.--Childhood II.--Boyhood III.--Youth My Confession I.--Evil Early Years II.--Groping in Darkness III.--The Spirit of Despair IV.--Mistakes Apprehended V.--Feeling Versus Reason PASQUALE VILLARI The Life of Girolamo Savonarola I.--1452-1494 II.--1475-1481 III.--1481-1490 IV.--1491 V.--1492-1494 VI.--1495-1497 VII.--1497-1498 JOHN WESLEY Journal The Holy Club A Missioner to Georgia Warrant for Wesley's Arrest In London Again Beau Nash Argues with Wesley "All the World My Parish" The Colliers of Kingswood In Ireland Clothing French Prisoners Gwennap's Famous Amphitheatre The American War City Road Chapel Begun Attended by Felons Enters His 80th Year His 86th Christmas JOHN WOOLMAN Journal I.--The Curse of Slavery II--Among the Indians III.--Across the Atlantic IV.--Prices, Wages, and Religion

Download or read book Letters of Note Volume 2 written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the editor of the New York Times bestseller and instant classic Letters of Note, comes this companion volume of more than 125 captivating letters. Each turn of the page brings delight and discovery in a collection of correspondence that spans centuries and place, written by the famous, the not-so-famous, and the downright infamous. Entries are accompanied by a transcript of the letter, a short contextual introduction, and a spirited illustration—in most cases, a facsimile of the letter itself. A splendid gatefold features one extraordinary hand-embroidered biographical letter. As surprising as it is entertaining, Letters of Note: Volume 2 is a gift of endless enjoyment and lasting value.

Download or read book The Life and Letters of William Sharp and Fiona Macleod Volume 1 1855 1894 written by William F. Halloran and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and for more than a decade "Fiona Macleod" duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as William Butler Yeats and, in America, E. C. Stedman. Sharp wrote "I feel another self within me now more than ever; it is as if I were possessed by a spirit who must speak out". This three-volume collection brings together Sharp’s own correspondence – a fascinating trove in its own right, by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, and George Meredith – and the Fiona Macleod letters, which bring to life Sharp’s intriguing "second self". With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. Halloran, this richly rewarding collection offers a wonderful insight into the literary landscape of the time, while also investigating a strange and underappreciated phenomenon of late-nineteenth-century English literature. It is essential for scholars of the period, and it is an illuminating read for anyone interested in authorship and identity.

Download or read book The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt written by H.W. Brands and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Roosevelt (1857–1919) was the most literary of American Presidents, writing scores of books, including Through the Brazilian Wilderness and African Game Trails. He was also the most active of American writers. In little more than six decades, Roosevelt was, among many of his activities, a rancher, historian, reformer, New York City Police Commissioner, renowned hunter, New York State Governor, conservationist, Vice President of the United States, and 26th President of the United States. What is less known is that Roosevelt was also one of the great epistolary writers, penning more than 100,000 letters. This collection brings together over 1,000 of Roosevelt's most engaging and revealing letters, ones that fully illuminate the private man and the public figure. Herein, Roosevelt corresponds with family, friends, colleagues, and political opponents. He discusses private matters, politics, military strategy, conservation, diplomacy, higher education, women's rights, literature, and football. The list of addresses is formidable, including: Jefferson Davis, Francis Parkman, Frederick Jackson Turner, John Muir, Andrew Carnegie, Jane Addams, Henry Ford, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John J. Pershing, Woodrow Wilson, Rudyard Kipling, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, superbly edited by H. W. Brands, allows Roosevelt to speak in his own inimitable voice. These letters capture the verve and sheer joy of life that was Roosevelt's signature.

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Elizabeth of the Trinity vol 2 written by Elizabeth of the Trinity (Catez) and published by ICS Publications. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (Elizabeth Catez) is a mystic of our times, who entered Carmel in 1901 at the age of twenty-one, and died there five years later. Her biblical spirituality, based on the epistles of her "dear Saint Paul" and the mystery of the divine indwelling, has inspired countless Christians. This second of three volumes of her Complete Works contains all of Elizabeth's surviving letters from Carmel, along with 8 photos. In simple and tender language, writing to friends and family, Elizabeth returns again and again to the great themes of her spirituality: the indwelling Trinity, silence and solitude, living by love, becoming a "praise of glory" (laudem gloriae) by sharing in the dying and rising of Jesus Christ. Here too we find many of her best-known sayings, e.g., "I have found my heaven on earth, for heaven is God, and God is in my soul." In his introductions and careful notes, Father Conrad De Meester, O.C.D., explains the background of each of Elizabeth's letters from Carmel, most of which have never before appeared in English. Anne Englund Nash continues the style set in the first volume of the Complete Works, presenting a translation that reflects both the literary nuances and spirit of the original French texts.

Download or read book Letters to My Students Volume 2 written by Jason K. Allen and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few books have more influenced those called to gospel ministry than Charles Spurgeon’s Lectures to My Students. This influence of this book, like the Prince of Preachers himself, reverberates to our present age. Carrying forward this tradition is Jason Allen’s Letters to My Students. Dr. Allen serves as president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Spurgeon College, the former ranking as one of the largest and fastest growing seminaries in North American. Dr. Allen has also served in multiple pastorates. His passion to serve the church by equipping a generation of pastors, missionaries, and ministers for faithful service is reflected in Letters to My Students. Letters to My Students is a biblical, accessible guide for ministers and ministers-in-training. It brings both biblical and practical wisdom to bear on the minister’s three main responsibilities: preaching, leading, and shepherding the flock of God. Martin Lloyd-Jones famously described the call to ministry as the highest, greatest, and most glorious calling to which one can be called. If this assessment resonates with you, you’ll want every available tool to strengthen your ministry. Letters to My Students is one such resource.

Download or read book The Letters of T S Eliot written by T. S. Eliot and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume One: 1898–1922 presents some 1,400 letters encompassing the years of Eliot's childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, through 1922, by which time the poet had settled in England, married his first wife, and published The Waste Land. Since the first publication of this volume in 1988, many new materials from British and American sources have come to light. More than two hundred of these newly discovered letters are now included, filling crucial gaps in the record and shedding new light on Eliot's activities in London during and after the First World War. Volume Two: 1923–1925 covers the early years of Eliot's editorship of The Criterion, publication of The Hollow Men, and his developing thought about poetry and poetics. The volume offers 1,400 letters, charting Eliot's journey toward conversion to the Anglican faith, as well as his transformation from banker to publisher and his appointment as director of the new publishing house Faber & Gwyer. The prolific and various correspondence in this volume testifies to Eliot's growing influence as cultural commentator and editor.

Download or read book The Kingdom on the Waves written by M. T. Anderson and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he and his tutor escape to British-occupied Boston, Octavian learns of Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join the counterrevolutionary forces. 75,000 first printing.

Download or read book Selected Letters 1957 1969 written by Jack Kerouac and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1999 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of an American original in his own words, offering unparalleled insights into the mind and life of a giant of the American literary landscape.

Download or read book Life and Letters written by Edmund Clarence Stedman and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Big Bird s Sesame Street Dictionary written by Linda Hayward and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary of the vocabulary of very young children presenting for each word a definition, a sentence using the word, and an illustration of the sentence featuring Sesame Street characters.

Download or read book Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley written by Leonard Huxley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley by Leonard Huxley

Download or read book The Complete Writings of Roger Williams Volume 2 written by Roger Williams and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years after the U. S. Civil War, a group of men in Rhode Island made a conserted effort to rescue the widely scattered writings of Roger Williams. Few sets were printed though, and under the guidance of Perry Miller, 'The Complete Writings of Roger Williams' were brought back in 1963, but still in short numbers. The present collection now makes these volumes available to readers in their original orthography. The theme of religious liberty is dominant in these volumes, running through Williams's correspondence with John Cotton and on through his famous pair of works on 'The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution.' All of the extant shorter writings and letters of Roger Williams are included in this set, along with two significant works resulting from his engagement with Native Americans: his seminal 'Key into the Language of America and Christenings Make Not Christians.'

Download or read book Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II written by Sylvia Plath and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence. Most has never before been published, and it is here presented unabridged, without revision, so that she speaks directly in her own words. Refreshingly candid and offering intimate details of her personal life, Plath is playful, too, entertaining a wide range of addressees, including family, friends and professional contacts, with inimitable wit and verve. The letters document Plath's extraordinary literary development: the genesis of many poems, short and long fiction, and journalism. Her endeavour to publish in a variety of genres had mixed receptions, but she was never dissuaded. Through acceptance of her work, and rejection, Plath strove to stay true to her creative vision. Well-read and curious, she simultaneously offers a fascinating commentary on contemporary culture. Leading Plath scholar Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil, editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962, provide comprehensive footnotes and an extensive index informed by their meticulous research. Alongside a selection of photographs and Plath's own drawings, they masterfully contextualise what the pages disclose. This selection of later correspondence witnesses Plath and Hughes becoming major, influential contemporary writers, as it happened. Experiences recorded include first books and other publications; teaching; committing to writing full-time; travels; making professional acquaintances; settling in England; building a family; and buying a house. Throughout, Plath's voice is completely, uniquely her own.

Download or read book Selected Letters written by Francesco Petrarca and published by I Tatti Renaissance Library. This book was released on 2017 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We naturally think of Petrarca first as a poet. But he was much more than that. The first of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance, Petrarca was instrumental in establishing as a cultural goal the rediscovery and collection of manuscripts of the ancient Latin authors; thanks to Petrarca the humanist scholars who followed him became the main conduit for the transmission and revitalization of classical learning, a necessary condition of the wider European Renaissance. Even more significant was Petrarca's role in shaping the literary movement that became known as humanism, a movement that for centuries promoted the study and cultivation of Latin literature. A charismatic figure with a gift for friendship, his life - revealed above all in his letters - became a model for how to live a literary life, how to reconcile the study of pagan literature with sincere Christian belief, and how the study of ancient languages and literatures could serve both true religion and the public world of princes and republics, as well as promote moral excellence in mankind as a whole. He gave the humanities a set of ideals that they fed upon for centuries. He taught how the civic virtues and philosophical wisdom of the pagans could be combined with Christian teachings to produce a a richer civilization. He taught that the humanistic study of antiquity could transform lives and bring back virtue as a personal and public ideal. He more than anyone planted the great tree of Christian classicism which flourished in the West down to modern times.--