Letters to an American Lady
Title | Letters to an American Lady PDF eBook |
Author | C. S. Lewis |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2014-10-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0802871828 |
When Lewis was 51 years old and long established at Magdalen College, Oxford, he wrote the first of this collection of letters to an American widow. She was described as a "very charming, gracious, southern aristocratic lady who loved to talk and speak well". In them are his antipathy to journalism, advertising, snobbery, psychoanalysis, and the petty practices that sap freedoms. They identify events in his life after 1950 including his marriage to Joy Davidman and her death three years later.
Letters to an American lady
Title | Letters to an American lady PDF eBook |
Author | Clive S. Lewis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 121 |
Release | 1969 |
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Letters to an American Lady
Title | Letters to an American Lady PDF eBook |
Author | Clive Staples Lewis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1982 |
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Letters to an American lady
Title | Letters to an American lady PDF eBook |
Author | Clive S. Lewis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 121 |
Release | 1978 |
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Letters from an American Lady
Title | Letters from an American Lady PDF eBook |
Author | American lady |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1847 |
Genre | Great Britain |
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Women's Letters
Title | Women's Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Grunwald |
Publisher | Dial Press Trade Paperback |
Pages | 833 |
Release | 2009-01-21 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0307493334 |
Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.
C. S. Lewis' Letters to Children
Title | C. S. Lewis' Letters to Children PDF eBook |
Author | Clive Staples Lewis |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1996-06-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0684823721 |
A collection of letters from the English author of the Narnia books to a variety of children.