Letter, Diaries

Although he is regarded as one of the most important figures in American literature on account of his novels and short stories, Henry James was also a prolific writer of letters, sometimes penning as …

Bess of Hardwick’s Letters is the first book-length study of the c. 250 letters to and from the remarkable Elizabethan dynast, matriarch and builder of houses Bess of Hardwick (c. 1527-1608). By …

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The majority …

50 letters from high-profile business leaders and thinkers to their CEO offering advice, insight and guidance.This collection of specially-commissioned letters offers clear, calming and concise …

Masculinity is an expanding area of gender history. Man’s Estate is the first book to focus on a particular social group, the English landed gentry, and to cover a time span of several hundred years. …

Funny, honest and full of subtle magic, this is a rare and revealing portrait of 18th century Europe at a time when Marie Antoinette had just become queen of all France, the Grand Tour was in its …

An Ordinary Marriage is the story of the Chikhachevs, middling-income gentry landowners in nineteenth-century provincial Russia. In a seemingly strange contradiction, the mother of this family, …

History without the stiffness and polish time creates.Canada’s journey to Confederation kicked off with a bang – or rather, a circus, a civil war (the American one), a small fortune’s worth of …