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Sir Edward Tyas Cook was an English journalist, biographer, and man of letters.
John Ruskin had a life and career that made the romantic visionary singly the most important cultural figure of his day. His canon attests to the intelligence that championed natural beauty, reveled in art, and erred only on the side of humanity. Sir Edward Tyas Cook (1857-1919) also wrote the Life of John Ruskin, the classic biography cited and recommended by the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. "My desire has been to discuss not how, but what, Ruskin has written. ... His writings open a vista into a great forest, but there has been some danger of not seeing the forest for the trees."
How the First World War made women central to popular imperialism in Britain
Praeterita is the autobiography of John Ruskin (1819-1900), art critic and social commentator and one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth century. An elegy for lost places and people, Praeterita recounts Ruskin's childhood, and his travels across Europe with passion and intimacy.
Margaret Sanger – An Autobiography is a memoir written by famous American birth control activist with a goal to promote her main cause – the fight for birth control. Sanger speaks of her experiences in New York and all around the world seeing the state of the poor and practicing nursing. She disapproved abortion and preferred to help women gain control of their lives with birth control and she tried to develop a professional medical procedure for distributing it. Sanger dedicated herself to the cause of birth control and she spent her life desperately trying to educate women.
19th-century British culture in the autograph hand. Original manuscripts of Scott, Coleridge, Austen, Yeats, Joyce, etc. Commentary.
More than fifty specialists have contributed to the new edition of volume 5 of the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.