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Notes from a Literal Life
Description"I didn't ask to come here," said a bad tempered psychiatrist at Southmead hospital. They'd sent him to see me because I kept crying. Well, I hadn't asked him to come and wasn't particularly pleased to see him either. I cried a lot in those days and didn't think it was cause for calling in the mind doctor. I'd just had a baby and I don't think I'd quite believed in it till then. Birds must have the same shock when a fully formed chick pecks itself out of an egg that had only ever required sitting upon and nothing else. The pregnancy had seemed enough to be going on with, but the pregnancy was over and the baby was for life. "Where's home?" Home was a flat in St. Paul's, which didn...
Living Next Door to the City
This is a collection of poems giving a glimpse of life and love.
Punch
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Her Own Life
During a period when writing was often the only form of self-expression for women, Her Own Life contains extracts from the autobiographical texts of twelve seventeenth-century women addressing a wide range of issues central to their lives.
Elaine Never Listens
Elaine never listens to anything that grown-ups tell her. Despite the fact that this gets her in to all kinds of scrapes, Elaine does not learn. It is not until her grandpas actions save Elaine from getting hurt that she realizes her mistake and learns her lesson. Elaine decides that from then on, she will always listen to grown-ups.
Enter the Press-gang
"Even as press-gangs roamed the London streets, eighteenth-century writers applauded, critiqued, and condemned the practice Pepys called "a great tyranny" - the means of naval recruitment by which Britain simultaneously manned her fleets and oppressed her citizens." "This book centers on literature produced in "moments of crisis" - times when Britain faced a military challenge and thus needed her Navy most. When the French gained the upper hand early in the Seven Years' War, David Garrick was moved to write "To honour we call you, not press you like slaves, / For who are so free as we sons of the waves?" This characterization of the press as benign was common in the theater, even as sailors brawled with press-gangs on London Bridge. At the same time, novelists bitterly attacked impressment policy, showing how the press weighs most heavily on the poor."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
