Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Here I present you with a true, and most easie way of Practising what you shall find mentioned in this little Book; which though but Little, containeth more than all the Books that I ever saw in this Nature, they being Confounders rather than Instructors.So wrote Hannah Wolley (c. 1622–1674'), the self-proclaimed "Authress" of this "little Book" of instruction, The Ladies Directory of Choice Experiments & Curiosities of Preserving in Jellies and Candying Both Fruits & Flowers, first published in 1661. In this epistle to readers, we find none of the bashful modesty or shame so often associated with the female writer of the early modern period.2 Wolley boldly marked her territory and her expertise as an instructor ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: The humble request of several Natives of Bengal.—We humbly beseech any Gentlemen will be so good to us as to take the trouble of making a Bengal Grammar and Dictionary, in which, we hope to find all the common Bengal country words made into English.Mr. Cooper takes this method of informing the Natives, at whose request the Card was inserted in the last Calcutta Gazette, that if they will take the trouble of calling at his Printing-office, they may see part of a Bengal and English Vocabulary; which is now going on; and which may be speedily published if properly supported by Subscriptions…In recent years, many historians and other scholars have taken an interest in the print culture of South Asia, "the first fully ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: In December 1835, John Leighton Wilson carried a stack of writing paper some 800 kilometers up the coast of West Africa, from his Cape Palmas mission station called "Fair Hope" to Cape Mesurado, where the largest settlement in Liberia, called Monrovia, was located. Wilson, a white missionary from South Carolina sent to West Africa on behalf of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), arrived at the Monrovia offices of the Liberia Herald, the first newspaper established in the American settlements comprised of freeborn and formerly enslaved Black Americans that came to be known as "Liberia." There, Wilson commissioned the Herald's printer, James C. Minor, to produce a primer in the Grebo ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: During the first year of the US Civil War, the Philadelphia-based Presbyterian Board of Publication released The Soldier's Pocket-Book, a palm-sized volume of prayers, hymns, and scriptural excerpts bound in flexible cloth covers. The Board's annual report for 1861 highlights the "small and unpretending" book's ability to move across vast geographies, noting that "large supplies have been forwarded…as far as possible to all the regiments on the Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of Mexico."1 Volume editor William M. Engles's preface to the Soldier's Pocket-Book likewise emphasizes that the small book suits new wartime demands on mobility, but also proposes that the book's size might aid the war effort itself. "This ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: In November 1929 Edmund Blunden received "a very advanced" copy of his friend Robert Graves's autobiography Good-bye to All That. With roughly half the book made up of wartime reminiscences, publisher Jonathan Cape likely anticipated that Blunden—a celebrated war poet and memoirist, as well as a prolific literary journalist—would review the book favorably. Blunden's account of his own service, Undertones of War, had been published the year before to critical and popular acclaim. Its prose elliptical and muted, Undertones was written over the course of several years, and with the benefit of temporal and geographical distance (he wrote the book while living in Japan) Blunden achieved a work of astonishing "beauty and ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: In September 1933, the American Book-of-the-Month Club News advertised "Two Books at One Price in October." Making one of their rare "dual" selections, the judges chose works by an American and an English author, made available to their members at the combined cut price of $3. In dramatic style, the lead advert framed the texts as contrasting wildly:One is American, as racy as it can be; the other is of the finest vintage of modern English writing; one is by a young man, who still has his wide public to win, […] as one of the few most promising writers of the younger Americans; the other is by an Englishwoman whose work is already appreciated the world over.1The American novel was The Woods Colt by Thames ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: One of the early and notable titles issued by Key Porter Books, the Torontobased publishing company launched in 1982 by Anna Porter and Michael de Pencier, was Basil H. Johnston's Indian School Days. In this work of reminiscence, Johnston offered a personal account of the years he spent at Garnier Residential School for Boys (formerly St. Peter Claver's Residential School) in the town of Spanish, Ontario. Published in 1988, Indian School Days was the first memoir to focus entirely on the Indian residential school experience and the first written by an Anishinaabemowin2 speaker. As Deena Rymhs notes, it "helped mobilize a collective response"3 to residential schools by Indigenous writers and readers. It also ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: After a long season in which several of Joe Biden's competitors for the Democratic nomination to the US presidency in 2020 styled their campaigns with poetry, it was largely not until the end of his successful bid against Donald Trump that Biden chose verse to be a larger part of his own. In October 2020, two weeks before his election, his staff released a YouTube video of his recitation of "The Cure at Troy," an adaptation from Sophocles by Seamus Heaney that Biden has long recited at various events, sometimes with the same opening joke about his Irish heritage and affinity. From an address to the World Affairs Council in 2007: "I'm always quoting Irish poets, and my friends in the Senate kid me. They think it's ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
Subscription journal
[22 journals]
