A New Orleans Lady of Letters
Author : John Smith Kendall
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 1936
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Author : John Smith Kendall
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 1936
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Author : Peter M. Wolf
Publisher : Delphinium
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781883285562
A memoir from the land planning and urban policy management authority, and sixth-generation member of an influential New Orleans family.
Author : Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781570034404
Wilson 1835-1909) is little known now, but was one of the most popular authors of the 19th century, with most of her nine novels becoming best sellers. Sexton (writing, Morehead State U.) selects and annotates letters to her friends, among them well known literary and political figures, that illuminate her life and times. With this volume, the series expands from the 19th to encompass the 20th as well. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
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ISBN : 9780985155889
A book that captures the culture of New Orleans in 26 letters.
Author : Grace King
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 1971
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ISBN : 9781455608744
Author : Barbara Heller
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781797208916
"A special edition of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, featuring removable, handwritten letters and manuscripts by the characters"--
Author : Miki Pfeffer
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0807172812
Shortly after Grace King wrote her first stories in post-Reconstruction New Orleans, she entered a world of famous figures and literary giants greater than she could ever have imagined. Notable writers and publishers of the Northeast bolstered her career, and she began a decades-long friendship with Mark Twain and his family that was as unlikely as it was remarkable. Beginning in 1887, King paid long visits to the homes of friends and associates in New England and benefited from their extended circles. She interacted with her mentor, Charles Dudley Warner; writers Harriet Beecher Stowe and William Dean Howells; painter Frederic E. Church; suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker; Chaucer scholar Thomas Lounsbury; impresario Augustin Daly; actor Will Gillette;cleric Joseph Twichell; and other stars of the era. As compelling as a novel, this audacious story of King’s northern ties unfolds in eloquent letters. They hint at the fictional themes that would end up in her own art; they trace her development from literary novice to sophisticated businesswoman who leverages her own independence and success. Through excerpts from scores of new transcriptions, as well as contextualizing narrative and annotations, Miki Pfeffer weaves a cultural tapestry that includes King’s volatile southern family as it struggles to reclaim antebellum status and a Gilded Age northern community that ignores inevitable change. King’s correspondence with the Clemens family reveals incomparable affection. As a regular guest in their household, she quickly distinguished “Mark,” the rowdy public persona, from “Mr. Clemens,” the loving husband of Livy and father of Susy, Clara, and Jean, all of whom King came to know intimately. Their unguarded, casual revelations of heartbreaks and joys tell something more than the usual Twain lore, and they bring King into sharper focus. All of their existing letters are gathered here, many published for the first time. A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain’s Court paints a fascinating picture of the northern literary personalities who caused King’s budding career to blossom.
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 1836
Category : Conduct of life
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Author : Lisa Grunwald
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0307493334
Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.
Author : Walter G. Cowan
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807127438
Updated by the two living original authors, this new paper edition of New Orleans Yesterday and Today provides information on recent additions to the New Orleans scene, including countless new restaurants and music venues, casino gambling, the D-Day Museum, and the Aquarium of the Americas. The book provides a well-rounded sense of New Orleans' unique and multi-faceted culture and its evolution as a city. In addition to being a help to tourists, the book will provide a refresher history course to New Orleans natives.