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Hawk Eye Farm
This book chronicles the history of a pioneering family of immigrant farmers (the Hopkirks) in southeastern Iowa. It begins in 1838 and ends with the early life of the author, their great-grandson, who was born in their house, moved with his family to California and what he experienced as an immigrant growing up in that state. It is a unique transect through history, complete with many original letters (1807+) and photographs (1850s+) which tell the story and bring it to life for the reader.
From Memory's Shrine: The Reminscences of Carmen Sylva
From Memory's Shrine is an autobiography by writer and first Romanian queen Pauline Elisabeth Ottilie Luise of Wied. She had been the princess consort of Romania since her marriage to then-Prince Carol on 15 November 1869. Contents: "I. Clara Schumann 13 II. Grandmamma 30 III. Ernst Moritz Arndt 60 IV. Bernays 69 V. Two Old Retainers 85 VI. Fanny Lavater 97 VII. Bunsen 119 VIII. Perthes 139 IX. A Faith-Healer 151 X. Mary Barnes 175 XI. The Family Valette 181 XII. Karl Sohn, the Portrait-Painter 192 XIII. Weizchen 203 XIV. A Group of Humble Friends 217 XV. My Tutors 232 XVI. Marie 243 XVII. My Brother Otto 251."
Contested Selves
Investigates the field of German life writing, from Rahel Levin Varnhagen around 1800 to Carmen Sylva a century later, from Döblin, Becher, women's WWII diaries, German-Jewish memoirs, and East German women's interview literatureto the autofiction of Lena Gorelik.
Heroes and Victims
The cultural politics of commemorating war.
Women Writing Intimate Spaces
The messy and multi-layered issue of intimacy in connection with transnationality and spatiality is the topic of this volume on women’s writing in the long nineteenth century. A series of intimacies are dealt with through case studies from a wide range of countries situated on the European fringes. Within the field of feminist literary studies, the volume thus differs from other publications with a narrower scope, such as Western Europe or specific regions. More broadly, the chapters in this volume offer a variety of approaches to intimacy and generous bibliographical references for researchers in humanities and cultural studies.
Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia
This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.
From Memory's Shrine: The Reminscences of Carmen Sylva
It has been said by a well-known German novelist of our day in one of his most recent works that as we approach our fiftieth year our hearts nearly always resemble a grave-yard, thronged with memories, a far greater share of our affection belonging by that time to those who are already at rest beneath the earth than may be claimed by those still left here to wander with us on its surface. This remark of Rosegger’s is above all true of such of us as have been accustomed from our earliest youth to stand mourning beside new-made graves, and see our nearest and dearest prematurely carried off in Death’s relentless grasp. It is in this cemetery of mine, sacred to the memory of all whom I have...
