Briefe, Tagebücher

First published in 1995. Here, republished for the first time, is the first edition text of Jane Austen“s much loved classic masterpieces. A rare and inaccessible resource for most scholars, the fir …

Anna Seward, eighteenth-century poet, biographer, and letter-writer, wrote her juvenile journal in the form of a series of letters to an imaginary friend, "Emma". Seward intended the letter …

The predominant theme of the letters of 1528 is Erasmus“ controversies with a variety of critics and opponents. The publication in March of the dialogue Ciceronianus, for example, provoked a huge up …

The letters in this volume reflect Erasmus’ anxiety about the endemic warfare in Western Europe, the advance of the Ottoman Turks into Europe, and the increasing threat of armed conflict between Cath …

Bold, headstrong, and fabulously wealthy, Dutch traveller Alexine Tinne (1834–1869) made several excursions into the African interior, often accompanied by her mother, at a time when very few Europea …

This chrestomathy is a selection of passages from the previously unpublished writings of Northrop Frye, much of it coming from his notebooks and diaries, which are now a part of his Collected Works ( …

First published in 1967. This journal is a copy of the narrated manuscript of Captain Cook’s last voyage of discovery into the Pacific Ocean. It spans from 1776 to 1779 and includes illustrations and …

This hitherto unpublished first-hand witness account, written in 1968-9, tells the story of a privileged Polish woman whose life was torn apart by the outbreak of the Second World War and Soviet occu …

University literary journals allow students to create their own venue for learning, have a hands-on part of their development in real-world skills, and strive towards professional achievement. But pr …

During the course of the First World War, staff of the Great Western Railway“s Audit Office sent letters and photographs back to their employer in Paddington, which were in turn collated into monthl …