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

Love and War in London

Olivia Cockett

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• Olivia Cockett was twenty-six years old in the summer of 1939 when she responded to an invitation from Mass Observation to "ordinary" individuals to k... 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

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
• A veteran dog musher, Dave Olesen finished the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race eight times. After a fifteen-year career as a sled dog racer, Olesen set o... 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 Great D... Lees meer

Just a Larger Family

• Paperback | Engels | Life Writing
• Letters from Canada to the mother of child war guests from Britain are "an extraordinary slice of wartime Canadian life." -- J.L. Granatstein The Seco... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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