diaries
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 »
Matthew and George Culley: Travel Journals and Letters, 1765-1798 (Records of Social and Economic History, New Series, 35)
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The travel journals and letters of Matthew and George Culley give a fresh and practical picture of agriculture and related conditions in England and Scotland in the late eighteenth century, as seen by two successful farmers who pioneered and spread improved methods and livestock breeds inNorthumberland and beyond. These down-to-earth journals are worthy to stand alongside such famous contemporary works as Arthur Young's Tours and John Byng's Diaries.
Writing, Financing, & Producing Documentaries: Creating Salable Reality Video
 | author: Anne Hart asin: 0595366333 binding: Paperback list price: $23.95 USD amazon price: $23.95 USD |
Learn how to write, finance, produce, distribute, publicize, launch, and market documentaries—videos on DVD or similar formats and/or movie scripts. Use your personal computer and your camcorder linked together for editing. Learn about the best script-formatting software to use. Make time and money budgets. Learn how to get funding by fundraising. Write Audio-Visual scripts and turn them into reality-based documentaries for information, travel, or education. Use the Internet’s Web to syndicate and disseminate your content in text, audio, or video formats. read more »
Guyana Diaries: Women's Lives Across Difference (Writing Lives)
 | author: Kimberly D. Nettles asin: 1598741950 binding: Paperback list price: $29.95 USD amazon price: $20.07 USD |
Guyana Diaries narrates the life histories of members of the Red Thread Development Corporation, a group of women activists in the Caribbean. Kimberly Nettles, an African American researcher, explores the impact of their work on these women’s lives and, in the process, discovers differences of class and nation that overshadow the gender and race she shares with her subjects. read more »
My Girlosophy: How to Write Your Own Life (Girlosophy series)
 | author: Anthea Paul asin: 1741750997 binding: Paperback list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $14.96 USD |
Enriched with affirmations and motivational sayings from the author’s own diaries, this gorgeous guidebook shows girls how to create their own beautiful journals, scrapbooks, and diaries. A how-to resource, it serves as an inspirational guide to help young women create journals and diaries to reflect their hopes and dreams. Featuring sample pages from other girls’ diaries and journals, this guide offers creative suggestions to get readers started on their own unique memory book.
