Author: Michael HurstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Letters and Commentaries on Ireland: Memorandums made in Ireland in the autumn of 1852
Author: Michael HurstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Memorandums Made in Ireland in the Autumn of 1852
Author: sir John ForbesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Letters and Commentaries on Ireland: Ireland in 1839 and 1869
Author: Michael HurstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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The Letters of Charlotte Brontë
Author: Margaret SmithPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780191513282
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This final volume of Charlotte Brontë's letters covers the period from 1852, when she eventually completed Villette, to March 1855, when she died at the early age of 38. Published in January 1853, Villette reflects experiences and moods conveyed with sharp immediacy in the correspondence of the preceding years. In December 1852 one of her most dramatic letters described the crucial event in her private life: Arthur Nicholls's proposal of marriage, when, 'shaking from head to foot' he made her feel 'what it costs a man to declare affection where he doubts response.' Mr Brontë's furious opposition to the match was not overcome until 1854, the year of Charlotte's marriage on 29 June. In the all too few months before her death, she came to love and trust Nicholls, her 'dear boy' and her 'tenderest nurse' during her final illness. The letters in this volume include on the one hand Charlotte's brief curt note to George Smith on his engagement to Elizabeth Blakeway, and on the other a newly discovered letter describing with cheerful briskness Charlotte's purchase of her own wedding trousseau. Complete texts of letters previously published inaccurately or in part provide valuable insight into her other friendships. Those to Elizabeth Gaskell in particular have an important bearing on our interpretation and assessment of her Life of Charlotte, published early in 1857; and the inclusion of Harriet Martineau's angry comments on the Life ('Hallucination!' [Friendship] was never attained.') enhances our understanding of Charlotte's break with Martineau after her review of Villette. The redating of a letter has shown that the long estrangement between Charlotte and her oldest friend, Ellen Nussey, caused by Ellen's hostility to the idea of Charlotte's marriage with Nicholls, lasted without a break from July 1853 until late February 1854. The volume includes some of the touching notes from Charlotte's bereaved husband and father, written in response to condolences on her death. Mrs Gaskell's graphic account of her visit to Haworth in 1853 forms one of the appendices; others provide the texts of fragmentary letters, identify known forgeries, and list addenda and corrigenda for volumes 1 and 2.
Letters and Commentaries on Ireland: The life's work in Ireland of a landlord who tried to do his duty
Author: Michael HurstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Letters and Commentaries on Ireland: Letters on the state of Ireland addressed by J.K.L. to a friend in England [James Warren Doyle
Author: Michael HurstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Perspectives on Travel Writing
Author: Glenn HooperPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351911651
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Perspectives on Travel Writing is a collection of new essays by international scholars that examines some of the various contexts of travel writing, as well as its generic characteristics. Contributions examine the similarities between autobiography and memoir, fiction, and travel writing, and attempt to define travel writing as a genre. Utilising a variety of approaches, the essays display a shared concern with what travel writing does and how it does it. The effects of encounter and border-crossing on gender, 'race', and national identity are considered throughout. The collection begins with a review of some of the problems and issues facing the scholar of travel writing and moves on to a detailed discussion of the qualities of travel writing and its related forms. It then presents in chronological order a number of case studies, before closing with a critical discussion of approaches to the subject. An essay collection with broad historical and geographical coverage, this volume should appeal to students and researchers of travel and travel-related literatures from across the Humanities.
Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character
Author: William WilliamsPublisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299225232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Picturesque but poor, abject yet sublime in its Gothic melancholy, the Ireland perceived by British visitors during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not fit their ideas of progress, propriety, and Protestantism. The rituals of Irish Catholicism, the lamentations of funeral wakes, the Irish language they could not comprehend, even the landscapes were all strange to tourists from England, Wales, and Scotland. Overlooking the acute despair in England’s own industrial cities, these travelers opined in their writings that the poverty, bog lands, and ill-thatched houses of rural Ireland indicated moral failures of the Irish character.
List of Works Relating to Ireland
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Author: sir John Forbes