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

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

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 fifteen-year career as a sled dog racer, musher Dave Olesen turned his focus away from competition and set out to fulfill a lifelong dream. Ov... 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

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

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

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

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

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

Food That Really Schmecks

Edna Staebler

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• An updated edition of a bestselling book in the food writing genre from award-winning author and journalist Edna Staebler. In the 1960s, Edna Staebler... Lees meer

Travels and Identities

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing | nr. 58
• Elizabeth Smith Shortt was one of the first three women to obtain a medical degree in Canada, and her husband, Adam Shortt, enjoyed a successful caree... Lees meer

Wait Time

Kenneth Sherman

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing | nr. 56
• When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations that blossomed into this powerful memoir... Lees meer

Pursuing Giraffe

Anne Innis Dagg

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• A captivating memoir from one of the first zoologists to study wild animals in Africa. In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a life... 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

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

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

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

Burdens of Proof

Susanna Egan

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• Autobiographical impostures, once they come to light, appear to us as outrageous, scandalous. They confuse lived and textual identity (the person in t... 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

Life Writing and Celebrity

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• This book examines the relationship between life writing and celebrity in English-language and comparative literary and cultural contexts, focusing on... Lees meer

I Have a Story to Tell You

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The s... Lees meer