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Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People From 1820s to 1920s (Modern British History)
 | author: Proffes Burnett asin: 0415103991 binding: Paperback list price: $45.95 USD amazon price: $45.95 USD |
Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the "ordinary" people of the 19th century. John Burnett has assembled 27 telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people--wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and munition workers, butlers and kitchen maids, navvies, carpenters, potters and ship assistants to list only a few. The men and women who speak in these pages concentrate on their working experiences, though they also write about their homes and their fears. read more »
2000 Poet's Market (Poet's Market, 2000)
 | author: Chantelle Bentley asin: 0898799155 binding: Paperback list price: $23.99 USD amazon price: $23.99 |
Writer's Digest's annual Poet's Market offers great entertainment value. Sure, it lists a whopping 1,100 journals and magazines, 500 book publishers, and 200 chapbook publishers of poetry. Of course it is a great resource for information on contests, awards, conferences, workshops, organizations, publications, and Web sites of interest to poets. This year's edition even features bold new icons, so that you can expediently locate new markets, significant contact- information changes, online publishers, and publishers that actually pay real money for poems. read more »
