Life Writing After Empire

• Hardcover | Engels | Life Writing
• A watershed moment of the twentieth century, the end of empire saw upheavals to global power structures and national identities. However, decolonisati... Lees meer

Rough and Plenty

Raymond A Rogers

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• As a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada's East Coast fishery first-hand. Afterward... Lees meer

Not the Whole Story

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing | nr. 51
• Not the Whole Story is a compilation of sixteen stories narrated by single mothers in their own way and about their own lives. Each story is unique, b... Lees meer

Just a Larger Family

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them and their two children in... Lees meer

The Queen of the Peace Room

Magie Dominic

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a lifetime? Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on ... Lees meer

Boom!

Julie Rak

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing | nr. 49
• Since the early 1990s, tens of thousands of memoirs by celebrities and unknown people have been published, sold, and read by millions of American read... Lees meer

Life Writing and Celebrity

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• This book examines the relationship between life writing and celebrity in English-language and comparative literary and cultural contexts, focusing on... Lees meer

Philosophy and Life Writing

• Hardcover | Engels | Life Writing
• In this volume, scholars from a number of academic disciplines illuminate how a range of philosophers and other thoughtful individuals addressed the c... Lees meer

China Diary

Shirley Jane Endicott

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing | nr. 14
• Mary Austin was a mayor's daughter who expected to live an uneventful life in Canada. But when she said "I do" to Jim Endicott she found that she had ... Lees meer

The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost, 1915-1919

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost, 1915-1919 brings to light the correspondence between two officer brothers and their family at home from... Lees meer

Unheard of

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• The memoir of renowned Canadian composer John Beckwith recounts his more than sixty years in creative output and music education. His life story is a ... Lees meer

Leaving Fundamentalism

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• The stories in Leaving Fundamentalism provide a personal and intimate look behind sermons, religious services, and church life, and promote an underst... Lees meer

Just a Larger Family

• Hardcover | Life Writing
• When, in 1940, Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them for the duration of the war, no one knew how long it would last. M... Lees meer

International Life Writing

• Hardcover | Engels | Life Writing
• Representing the best of international life writing scholarship, this collection reveals extraordinary stories of remarkable lives. These wide-ranging... Lees meer

Working Memory

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing | nr. 55
• Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II speaks to the work women did during the war: the labour of survival, resistance, and collaboration, and... Lees meer

Dissenting Lives

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• This collection brings together a series of essays that combine the public and private nature of dissent, stories of dissent that encapsulate the mood... Lees meer

Bearing Witness

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• Bearing Witness is a collection of stories from women who went through the diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and treatment for it, only to find that the ca... Lees meer

Travels and Identities

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing | nr. 58
• Elizabeth Smith Shortt was one of the first three women to obtain a medical degree in Canada, and her husband, Adam Shortt, enjoyed a successful caree... Lees meer

I Have a Story to Tell You

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The s... Lees meer

Writing Lives Together

• Hardcover | Engels | Life Writing
• Contributions to this book analyse material from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, including biography, auto/biographical memoirs,... Lees meer

Trauma Texts

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• These chapters gathered from two special issues of the journal Life Writing take up a major theme of recent work in the Humanities: Trauma. Autobiogra... Lees meer

Dissenting Lives

• Hardcover | Engels | Life Writing
• This collection brings together a series of essays that combine the public and private nature of dissent, stories of dissent that encapsulate the mood... Lees meer

Prison Life Writing

Simon Rolston

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• Prison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the complicated relati... Lees meer

Writing Lives Together

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• A diary entry, begun by a wife and finished by a husband; a map of London, its streets bearing the names of forgotten lives; biographies of siblings, ... Lees meer