Life Writing After Empire

• Hardcover | Engels | Life Writing
• A watershed moment of the twentieth century, the end of empire saw upheavals to global power structures and national identities. However, decolonisati... Lees meer

Incorrigible

Velma Demerson

• E-book | Engels | Life Writing
• On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her ... Lees meer

What the Oceans Remember

Sonja Boon

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• Sonja Boon's heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than 30 years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dut... Lees meer

Marian Engel’s Notebooks

Christl Verduyn

• Hardcover | Life Writing
• Notebooks which track her creative development, illustrating her commitment to the craft of writing, documenting her growth as a major Canadian writer... Lees meer

Watermelon Syrup

Annie Jacobsen, Jane Finlay-Young, Brandt

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor's family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depress... Lees meer

Seven Eggs Today

Jackson Webster Armstrong

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• Offers an intriguing glimpse into the daily life of an average Toronto woman in the mid-nineteenth century. Mary Armstrong's diaries are a window into... Lees meer

Just a Larger Family

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them and their two children in... Lees meer

Life Writing After Empire

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• A watershed moment of the twentieth century, the end of empire saw upheavals to global power structures and national identities. However, decolonisati... Lees meer

Kinds of Winter

Dave Olesen

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing | nr. 54
• After a 15-year racing career, musher Dave Olesen set out to fulfill a lifelong dream, carrying out four solo journeys by dog team, pointing in turn t... Lees meer

Trauma Texts

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• These chapters gathered from two special issues of the journal Life Writing take up a major theme of recent work in the Humanities: Trauma. Autobiogra... Lees meer

Incorrigible

Velma Demerson

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing | nr. 23
• On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her ... Lees meer

International Life Writing

• Hardcover | Engels | Life Writing
• Representing the best of international life writing scholarship, this collection reveals extraordinary stories of remarkable lives. These wide-ranging... Lees meer

We All Giggled

Thomas O Hueglin

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• We All Giggled tells the stories of two families that came together when the author's parents met and married in 1945. The Hüglins had lost most of th... Lees meer

Pursuing Giraffe

Anne Innis Dagg

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals a... Lees meer

Wait Time

Kenneth Sherman

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing | nr. 56
• Poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman helps the reader understand the profound connection between disease and creativity -- how we write out of our suffer... Lees meer

Food That Really Schmecks

Edna Staebler

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• In the 1960s, Edna Staebler moved in with an Old Order Mennonite family to absorb their oral history and learn about Mennonite culture and cooking. Fr... Lees meer

Travels and Identities

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing | nr. 58
• Diaries and letters of Adam and Elizabeth Shortt from their 1911 voyage from Canada to England, their extended visit there and later trips to the cont... Lees meer

Not the Whole Story

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing | nr. 51
• Not the Whole Story is a compilation of sixteen stories narrated by single mothers in their own way and about their own lives. Each story is unique, b... Lees meer

Dead Woman Pickney

Yvonne Shorter Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• Dead Woman Pickney chronicles life stories of growing up in Jamaica from 1943 to 1965 and contains both personal experience and history, told with str... Lees meer

The Limits of Life Writing

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• In the age of social media, life writing is ubiquitous. But if life writing is now almost universal-engaged with on our phones; reported in our news; ... Lees meer

Women and Ageing

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• This edited collection considers the ways older women's life narratives redefine culturally imposed conceptions of what it means to grow older. Drawin... Lees meer

Career Construction Theory and Life Writing

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• This volume applies the insight and methods of career construction theory to explore how autobiographical writing is used in different professional ca... Lees meer

Teaching Places

Audrey J Whitson

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• Teaching Places is a tale about a woman's spiritual search, how that search calls her to the land and how the land teaches. The telling spirals, explo... Lees meer

Philosophy and Life Writing

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• In this volume, scholars from a number of academic disciplines illuminate how a range of philosophers and other thoughtful individuals addressed the c... Lees meer