Focusing on four Dutch diaries from different periods of the early modern age, this book describes in detail the diversified use of reading in everyday life, examining it in a wider context of communication that also includes writing and speech.
"Beginning with glasnost in the late 1980s and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia, marking the end of an epoch. In a major new work on private life and personal writing…
Dagboek van de Duits-joodse schrijver/filoloog/filosoof over de periode januari 1933-juni 1945.
"Based on analysis of a diary kept by Constantijn Huygens Jr, the secretary to Stadholder-King William of Orange, this book proposes a new explanation for the invention of the modern, private diary in the 17th century. At the same time it sketches a panoramic view of Europe at t…
"Between the 17th and 19th centuries autobiographers and diarists invented new ways to write about childhood and children. At the same time, pedagogical ideas about child-rearing changed. This book looks at the connection between these developments. Egodocuments can bring the pa…
In Yorkshire eind 18e eeuw leidt de rijke landgoedeigenares Anne Lister een geheim leven want ze leeft samen met haar minnares Mariana. Anne schrijft in haar dagboeken in een codetaal gedetailleerd en openlijk over haar liefdes en leven
"The essays in this collection consider the diaries and journals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Diaries and journals took many forms - depending on the occupation, gender, social status, and religious commitment of the writer. They ranged in their forms from brief …
Op 11 november 2007 vraagt Hans van Mierlo Connie Palmen ten huwelijk. Op 11 november 2009, de dag waarop ze elf jaar en elf dagen bij elkaar zijn, trouwen ze in de Rode Hoed in Amsterdam. Op 11 maart 2010, na een ziekbed van zes weken, sterft Hans van Mierlo op de intensivecare…
Nelson Mandela: conversations with myself
by Harris, Verne, Mandela, Nelson, Obama, Barack
Dagboekaantekeningen en andere notities van de Zuid-Afrikaanse politicus.