Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers: A Biographical Dictionary, 1607-1635

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This book brings together a variety of primary sources that inform the reader about Virginia’s earliest European inhabitants and the sparsely populated and fragile communities in which they lived, resulting in the most comprehensive collection of annotated biographical sketches yet published. Ms. McCartney conveys the basics about many of these original colonists: their origins, the names of the ships they sailed on, the names of the “hundreds” and “plantations” the… More >>

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Shakespeare’s Home Razed To The Ground and Utterly Destroyed

"That beauty which іs England iѕ alone; іt hаѕ no duplicate. It іѕ made uр of very simple details, juѕt grass, and trees, and shrubs, аnd roads, аnd hedges, аnd gardens, аnd houses, аnd churches, аnd castles, аnd hеrе аnd thеrе a ruin, and ovеr all a mellow dreamland оf history. But іt's beauty iѕ incomparable аnd аll іt'ѕ own".

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Auto/Biographical Discourses: Criticism, Theory, Practice

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In this new critical study, Laura Marcus explores autobiography as a genre and as an organizing concept in nineteenth and twentieth century thought. Drawing on a wide range of writings, both literary and theoretical, she shows how autobiography and biography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private, fact and fiction–debates now refigured in feminist theory. Autobiography has itself been perceived as an unstable and hybrid genre: it a… More >>

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