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Author : John Toman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015080817664
"Kilvert's Diary and Landscape" is an effort to tell the story of Francis Kilvert's life as well as to picture rural society, which Victorians were prone to idealize. Toman offers a complete revaluation of the man and his work.
Author : William Plomer
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447499398
SINCE its first appearance in three volumes (1938–40) Kilvert’s Diary has become established as a minor classic. Its recognized place among the very best of English diaries has been gained by special qualities. It is the work of a man with a watchful eye and a clear style: Kilvert has the uncommon gift of making one see vividly what he describes. His detailed picture of life in the English countryside in mid-Victorian times is unmatched, and every sentence he writes helps to build up a self-portrait so personal and intimate that one gets to know him like a friend. Kilvert reveals himself as an essentially modest, innocent, truthful and unworldly young man, sociable, and with a strong love of life and of landscape, with a sense of drama and a good vein of humour. His life was strongly affected by two things–his susceptibility to the beauty of young women and girls, and his lack of money and of what used to be called prospects. As a faithful country clergyman, he moved with equal ease among people of both the landowning and labouring classes, and by both was welcomed equally. His good nature and good manners, his vitality, his love of children, and his practical sympathy with the unfortunate, won him much affection. If he did not question the values of his own class, he was never indifferent to sufferings which they permitted, and did what he could, with his evidently magnetic presence and voice, to lessen those sufferings. He knew that not far from the convivial and copious dinners and picnics, the lively croquet and archery parties, could be found loneliness, squalor, and hunger, and sometimes murders and suicides.
Author : John Toman
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780718841775
Kilvert's World of Wonders takes a fresh look at the Victorian era, one that does not turn away from the smoke stacks and crowded streets of popular imagining, but which sees them from the distance of the rural countryside. Though a countryman and lover of country ways, here the well know diarist is shown to be deeply stirred by what he saw as a society being changed and improved by science, technology, and by the liberal, enlightened ideas that were starting to circulate. The social changes seen by Kilvert resonated with the vision of progress that was imbued in him by his Victorian upbringing, and as a result his diaries can be seen as a response to these changes and not, as previous Kilvert scholarship suggests, as a simple record of country life. Toman's new work goes beyond the biographical and social realities of Kilvert's family by comparing them to almost twenty other middle-class families in order to show common factors in the familial experience of a rapidly changing society. At the heart of this re-evaluation of Kilvert's life and times is the theme of Wonder, various aspects of which are explored throughout. Away from the rapidly growing urban centres the effects of industrialisation are seen in a surprisingly positive light by Francis Kilvert, a fervent Christian coming to terms with the encroachments that science, scepticism and secularism were making upon religious faith and yet seeing all around him a 'world of wonders'.
Author : Francis Kilvert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:613756634
Author : Robert Francis Kilvert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Clergy
ISBN : 0955300207
Author : Robert Francis Kilvert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:920996378
Author : Brigid Allen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780718897451
George and Emily Eden were a devoted sibling pair. Both unmarried, they were accepted as a mildly unconventional couple by friends in the dynastically conscious governing class. George (1784-1849) entered politics as a Whig to replace his elder brother, who had been groomed for success but drowned in the Thames off Westminster one January night in 1810. Four years later George inherited his father’s peerage as 2nd Baron Auckland. In 1835 he was appointed Governor-General of India, and Emily (1797-1869), although reluctant to leave her close friend, the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, went with him. A witty and perceptive writer, who later published a distinctively voiced pair of novels, Emily chronicled the Indian period, as she did her entire adult life, in letters. Allen traces the development of her closeness to George, their interlocking private and public lives and the events that impacted on them, including the Afghan disaster of January 1842 and the mixture of blame and forbearance that George attracted at home. A poignant coda describes Emily’s final twenty years as Victorian invalid, author, and observer of the political scene.
Author : Robert Francis Kilvert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:1436393911
Author : Robert Francis Kilvert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Clergy
ISBN : IND:30000127877821
Author : Robert Francis Kilvert
Publisher : London : J. Cape
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : England
ISBN : LCCN:38035244
Author : W. Plomer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:966028716
Author : Robert Francis Kilvert
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:32000009777923
Author : Sally Bayley
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783522231
Diaries keep secrets, harbouring our fantasies and fictional histories. They are substitute boyfriends, girlfriends, spouses and friends. But in this age of social media, the role of the diary as a private confidante has been replaced by a culture of public self-disclosure. The Private Life of the Diary: from Pepys to Tweets is an elegantly-told story of the evolution – and perhaps death – of the diary. It traces its origins to seventeenth-century naval administrator, Samuel Pepys, and continues to twentieth-century diarist Virginia Woolf, who recorded everything from her personal confessions about her irritation with her servants to her memories of Armistice Day and the solar eclipse of 1927. Sally Bayley explores how diaries can sometimes record our lives as we live them, but that we often indulge our fondness for self-dramatization, like the teenaged Sylvia Plath who proclaimed herself 'The Girl Who Would be God'. This book is an examination of the importance of writing and self-reflection as a means of forging identity. It mourns the loss of the diary as an acutely private form of writing. And it champions it as a conduit to self-discovery, allowing us to ask ourselves the question: Who or What am I in relation to the world?
Author : Robert Francis Kilvert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : England
ISBN : OCLC:222149377
Author : Jeremy Burchardt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009199872
A compelling study of the influences that shape our responses to landscape, through eight modern British lives.
