Joanna, George, and Henry: A Pre-Raphaelite Tale of Art, Love and Friendship

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Letters of three artists closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites which also give a vivid insight into the dramas of their personal life.

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A Nurse at the Front: The Great War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton

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A Nurse at the Front is the second book in the Simon & Schuster 'War Diaries' series produced in conjunction with London's Imperial War Museum

Man's Estate: Landed Gentry Masculinities, 1660-1900

By Henry French & Mark Rothery(Hardback)

The first study on masculinity to focus on the English landed gentry. It covers the period from 1700 to 1900 and is based on several thousand letters written by 19 families. It concentrates on the common experiences of sons' upbringing, particularly schooling, university or business, foreign travel, and the move to family life and fatherhood.

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The Selected Letters of Frank Sargeson

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Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters

By Joseph Roth(Hardback)

An unforgettable portrait of the Austro-Hungarian author of The Radetzky March, this biography in letters - selected here for the first time by Michael Hofmann - is classic European literature at its finest.

The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens

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The nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography, these letters give us unique insights into his life, and are essential reading for Dickens fans everywhere. Whether you dip in or read straight through, this selection of his letters creates afresh the brilliance of being Dickens, and the sheer pleasure of being in his company.

Welsh Rugby Diary

By Alun Wyn Jones & Alun Wyn Bevan(Hardback)

An insider's guide to the life of a professional rugby player, both on and off the pitch.

The Real Dad's Army: The War Diaries of Col. Rodney Foster

By Rodney Foster(Hardback)

Colonel Rodney Foster, who retired to Hythe in the south of England after a military career in British India, joined the Home Guard in 1940 and kept a diary every day - a highly illegal act at the time - and in it meticulously chronicled his service in the real Dad's Army.

Janet Frame In Her Own Words

By Janet Frame(Hardback )

For the first time ever, this collection brings together Janet Frame’s published short non-fiction in one collected volume, as well as material never seen before. Letters spanning 50 years of Frame’s life are published alongside essays, reviews, speeches and extracts from interviews.

The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872-1876

By Henry James(Hardback)

Presents in a critical and scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language

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Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951

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This volume collects the most substantial correspondence and documents relating to Wittgenstein's long association with Cambridge between the years 1911 and his death in 1951, including the letters he exchanged with his most illustrious Cambridge contemporaries Russell, Keynes, Moore and Ramsey (and previously published as Cambridge Letters).

Hans Von Bulow's Letters to Johannes Brahms: A Research Edition

By Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen(Hardback)

Originally published: Hans von B'ulow. Die Briefe an Johannes Brahms. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1994.

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Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend

By Diana Athill(Hardback)

Thirty years of wit, wisdom, gossip and intimacy from Diana Athill, one of the nation's bestselling and best-loved authors, in the first collection of her letters ever to be published.

The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney

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This volume is the first of six that will present in their entirety Frances Burney's journals and letters from 17 July 1786, when she assumed the position of Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, until 7 July 1791, when she resigned her position because of ill health.

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The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney

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The second of six volumes that will present in their entirety Frances Burney's journals and letters from July 1786, when she assumed the position of Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, to her resignation in July 1791. This volume reveals Burney's struggles to adjust to the customs and trials of a life of service in the Court of George....

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Give Your Thoughts Life: William Colenso's Letters to the Editor

By William Colenso(Paperback)

The provincial newspaper columns were the 'public spheres' of their time, places for geographically separated individuals to contribute opinions to the debates of an immature democracy. But equally they were the vehicles for the passionately held views of bigots egged on by unscrupulous editors eager for exciting copy. These letters from Colenso, and their replies, show colonial politics to be....

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Somewhere in Blood Soaked France: The Diary of Corporal Angus Mackay, Royal Scots, Machine Gun Corps, 1914-1917

By Alasdair Sutherland(Paperback)

Marching with the Devil: Legends, Glory and Lies in the French Foreign Legion

By David Mason(Paperback)

'In 1894 a French Foreign Legion General said, Legionnaires, vous etes faits pour mourir, je vous envoie la ou on meurt. Legionnaires, you are made for dying, I will send you where you can die. When I was in my mid-teens and first read those words they were powerful and confronting. I read them as a challenge and an invitation.

The Hawthorn Tree: Some Papers and Letters on Life and the Theatre

By Paul Green(Paperback / softback)

With easy informality the author sets down his thoughts on education, art, and life in the war-torn world of 1943. Each chapter is complete in itself, but all are built on a central theme. The essence of the theme is that our training and our ideals have become mechanical and sterile, that the simple and perennial values of life are....

Little Malvern Letters

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Selection of correspondence from the house which was once Little Malvern priory, illuminating life at the time.

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