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Author: Susan Whyman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-10-08
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 0199532443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCapturing actual dialogues of people discussing subjects as diverse as marriage, poverty, poetry, and the emotional lives of servants, 'The Pen and the People' will be enjoyed by everyone interested in history, literature, and the intimate experiences of ordinary people.
Author: Susan Whyman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2011-03-31
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0191615854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSusan Whyman draws on a hidden world of previously unknown letter writers to explore bold new ideas about the history of writing, reading and the novel. Capturing actual dialogues of people discussing subjects as diverse as marriage, poverty, poetry, and the emotional lives of servants, The Pen and the People will be enjoyed by everyone interested in history, literature, and the intimate experiences of ordinary people. Based on over thirty-five previously unknown letter collections, it tells the stories of workers and the middling sort - a Yorkshire bridle maker, a female domestic servant, a Derbyshire wheelwright, an untrained woman writing poetry and short stories, as well as merchants and their families. Their ordinary backgrounds and extraordinary writings challenge accepted views that popular literacy was rare in England before 1800. This democratization of letter writing could never have occurred without the development of the Royal Mail. Drawing on new information gleaned from personal letters, Whyman reveals how the Post Office had altered the rhythms of daily life long before the nineteenth century. As the pen, the post, and the people became increasingly connected, so too were eighteenth-century society and culture slowly and subtly transformed.
Author: Susan Whyman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2011-03-31
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780199602186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pen and the People explores how eighteenth-century men and women learned to write letters, why they used them, and the impact of letter writing on their lives and wider culture. Capturing actual dialogues between correspondents, it reveals the intimate lives of ordinary people.
Author: Martin Ganda
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2015-04-14
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0316241342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New York Times bestselling true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever. It started as an assignment... Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. Martin was lucky to even receive a pen-pal letter. There were only ten letters, and fifty kids in his class. But he was the top student, so he got the first one. That letter was the beginning of a correspondence that spanned six years and changed two lives. In this compelling dual memoir, Caitlin and Martin recount how they became best friends—and better people—through their long-distance exchange. Their story will inspire you to look beyond your own life and wonder about the world at large and your place in it.
Author: E. Randolph Richards
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2004-10-22
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780830827886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInformed by the historical evidence and with a sharp eye for telltale clues in the Apostle Paul's letters, E. Randolph Richards takes us into his world and places us on the scene with Paul the letter writer offering a glimpse that overthrows our preconceptions and offers a new perspective on how this important portion of Christian Scripture came to be.
Author: Lynne Chapman
Publisher:
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781782213857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan E. Whyman
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCapturing actual dialogues of people discussing subjects as diverse as marriage, poverty, poetry, and the emotional lives of servants, 'The Pen and the People' will be enjoyed by everyone interested in history, literature, and the intimate experiences of ordinary people.
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 310
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Calvin F. Exoo
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 141295360X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pen and the Sword is the only comprehensive examination of how the media have covered the 21st century's #1 news story: terrorism and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is the full story-from 9/11 to the Obama doctrine-including
Author: Caroline Archer-Parré
Publisher: Eighteenth Century Worlds Lup
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1789622301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the eighteenth century there was a growing interest in recording, listing and documenting the world, whether for personal interest and private consumption, or general record and the greater good. Such documentation was done through both the written and printed word. Each genre had its own material conventions and spawned industries which supported these practices. This volume considers writing and printing in parallel: it highlights the intersections between the two methods of communication; discusses the medium and materiality of the message; considers how writing and printing were deployed in the construction of personal and cultural identities; and explores the different dimensions surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of private and public letters, words and texts during the eighteenth-century. In combination the chapters in this volume consider how the processes of both writing and printing contributed to the creation of cultural identity and taste, assisted in the spread of knowledge and furthered personal, political, economic, social and cultural change in Britain and the wider-world. This volume provides an original narrative on the nature of communication and brings a fresh perspective on printing history, print culture and the literate society of the Enlightenment.
