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Diaries
DIARIES DIARIES. Contemporary diaries and journals offer one of the most important sources of evidence for the social, economic, and cultural life of early modern Europe. An immense range of different types of serial memoranda were produced at a time when the personal memoir had not yet... Read more |
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diary
diary [Lat.,=day], a daily record of events and observations. As distinguished from memoir (an account of events placed in perspective by the author long after they have occurred), the diary derives its impact from its immediacy, requiring each generation of readers to supply its own perspective.... Read more |
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Anna Brownell (Murphy) Jameson
Anna Brownell (Murphy) Jameson , 1794-1860, English essayist, b. Dublin. The diary of her travels on the Continent as governess to a wealthy family was later published as The Diary of an Ennuyée (1826). Jameson's works—especially Shakespeare's Heroines (1932)—were popular in... Read more |
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Hitler
Hitler derogatory term for an overbearing and officious person, held to resemble the Nazi leader and German Führer Adolf Hitler (1889–1945).Hitler diaries in April 1983, it was announced that diaries written by Adolf Hitler had been discovered. Initially accepted as genuine (extracts... Read more |
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William Bentley
William Bentley 1759-1819, American Unitarian clergyman, b. Boston. From 1783 until his death he was pastor of East Church, Salem, Mass. His Diary (4 vol., 1905-14), covering the years 1784-1819, is a valuable historical source.... Read more |
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Samuel Warren
Samuel Warren 1807-77, English lawyer and author. He wrote many legal texts, Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician (1832), and the extremely popular novel Ten Thousand a Year (1841).... Read more |
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Philip Hone
Philip Hone 1780-1851, American diarist and politician, b. New York City. With his brother he built up a successful auctioneering business, which he later abandoned for politics. He was mayor of New York City in 1825. His diary (1828-51), opinionated and shrewd, contains valuable records of life in... Read more |
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Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem 1923-, American composer and author, b. Richmond, Ind. He is basically romantic in approach, determinedly tonal, and often lyrical. Although he has written a wide range of compositions, including chamber and choral music, symphonies, and tone poems, Rorem is best known for his vocal... Read more |
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Robert Francis Kilvert
Kilvert, Robert Francis (1840–79). Kilvert, a young Victorian curate, kept a diary in the 1870s when he served at Clyro, near Hay-on-Wye, and assisted his father at Langley Burrell, near Chippenham. He was born at Hardenhuish (Wilts.), where his father was vicar, and educated at Wadham... Read more |
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Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut Diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823-1886) captured an intimate view of the political and personal struggles of the Confederate South during the Civil War. Her journal of the war years describes not only the difficulties of war, but also reveals her personal views on the... Read more |
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diaries
diaries, diarists. The tradition of diary keeping in England seems...and The Roy Strong Diaries 1967–87 (1997), by...Comic fictional diaries were popular in the 1880s...the Grossmiths' The Diary of a Nobody (1892... |
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Diary of Anne Frank, The
Diary of Anne Frank, The (1955), a play by...from the Gestapo. There Frank discovers the diary kept by his thirteen‐year‐old daughter...escape. Now he reads the last line in the diary. “In spite of everything,” Anne writes... |
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Diary of a Nobody, The
Diary of a Nobody, The, by G. and W. Grossmith, published 1892.The diary covers 15 months of the life of Charles Pooter in the early 1890s. His entries describing the events of his life with his wife Carrie in Brickfield Terrace, Holloway... |
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Diary of a Country Parson, The
Diary of a Country Parson, The, see Woodforde, J. |
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Diary of a Public Man, The
Diary of a Public Man, The, see Ward, Samuel. |
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Pepys (pron. Peeps or Peppis), Samuel
...due to Montagu's patronage. His famous Diary opens on 1 Jan. 1660, when Pepys was living...fear of failing eyesight he closed his diary on 31 May 1669, and in the same year his wife...Lord Dartmouth and wrote an interesting diary while there. In 1684 he was reappointed... |
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Clifford, Lady Anne, countess of Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery
...to substantiate her claim. Her personal diaries of the years 1603, 1616–17, and 1619 (the ‘Knole diary’) chronicle these events. She also left...inheritance of Knole by her sex, edited The Diary of Lady Anne Clifford (1923). |
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Pepys, Samuel
...which encouraged him to begin his famous diary on 1 January 1660.At the Restoration...he was going blind led Pepys to end his diary, which was written in shorthand, in 1669...on his death, together with his famous diary and library of 3,00 |
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Byrd, William, II
...product is his cipher‐encoded secret diary, which survives for 1709–1712, 1717–1721 (the London Diary), and 1739–1741. Although repetitive...1744, 1971. Kenneth A. Lockridge , The Diary, and Life, of William Byrd II of Virginia... |
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Cummings, Bruce Frederick
...pseudonym of W. N. P. Barbellion as the author of a diary covering the years 1903–17, The Journal of a Disappointed...more and more of a substitute existence through his diaries. His A Last Diary (1920, ed. A. J. and H. R. Cummings) covers... |
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diary site
diary site A WEB SITE which offers the diary facilities found in common diary applications: facilities such as entering appointments, deleting appointments, and finding blocks of time that are free. Such sites are popular with users who travel... |
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diary
diary •beery, bleary, cheery, dearie, dreary, Dun Laoghaire, eerie, eyrie (US...furriery •justiciary •bestiary, vestiary •breviary • aviary • hosiery •diary, enquiry, expiry, fiery, friary, inquiry, miry, priory, spiry, wiry... |
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From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
From the Diary of Virginia Woolf. Song-cycle of 8 songs for medium v. and pf. by Argento with text from V. Woolf: 1. The Diary, 2. Anxiety, 3. Fancy, 4. Hardy's Funeral, 5. Rome, 6. War, 7. Parents, 8. Last Entry. Comp... |
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Diary of One who Disappeared
Diary of One who Disappeared (Zápisník zmizelého). Song-cycle by Janáček, comp. 1917–19, for ten., cont. (or mez... |
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Argento, Dominick
...now Minnesota Opera). Pulitzer Prize 1975 for From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, commissioned by Janet Baker. Primarily interested...the Water, high v., pf., cl., bcl. (1973); From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, medium v., pf. (1974); I Hate and... |
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Frank, Anne
Frank, Anne (1929–45) German Jewish girl. Her diary, first published in 1947, records the experiences of her...concentration camps; Anne died in Belsen from typhoid. Her diary has been translated into more than 30 languages, including... |
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Malinowski, Bronislaw Kaspar
...neglected recent changes. Malinowski's posthumously published diary reveals the very visible presence of powerful White outsiders...did not foresee self-determination by the colonized. His A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term (1967), often to the consternation... |
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Kilvert, Robert Francis
...1840–79). Kilvert, a young Victorian curate, kept a diary in the 1870s when he served at Clyro, near Hay‐on‐Wye...keen interest in the country people he met on his walks make his diary a vivid and moving account of the period. Kilvert died of peritonitis... |
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groupware server
...GROUPWARE system. It receives messages such as requests for diary dates, sends messages such as reminders of meetings that are...maintains files which contain entities such as personal schedules, diaries, versions of documents and MAILING LISTS. Such servers hold... |
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Woodforde, James
...James (1740–1803). Woodforde was a country parson whose diary from 1758 to 1802 has survived. His life was uneventful...in his servants, and he played whist and went fishing. The diary is full of little vignettes—old Mr Reeve who broke Woodforde... |
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diary
diary • noun 1. he put the date in his diary synonyms: appointment book, engagement book, organizer, personal organizer, daybook, PDA. 2. her World War II diaries synonyms: journal, memoir, chronicle, log, logbook, history, annal, record. |
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note
note • noun 1. a note in her diary synonyms: record, entry, item, notation, jotting, memorandum...indicate, point out, make known, state. 3. note the date in your diary synonyms: write down, put down, jot down, take down, inscribe... |
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book
...scribbled in his book synonyms: notebook, notepad, pad, memo pad, exercise book, workbook; logbook, ledger, journal, diary. 3. enter a $400 deposit in the book | the council had to balance its books synonyms: ledger, account book, record book... |
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chronicle
chronicle • noun a chronicle of historical eventssynonyms: register, record, annals, calendar, diary, journal, log, account, archive, history, story. |
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history
...antiquity; literary days of yore, yesteryear. 2. a history of the Boxer Rebellion synonyms: chronicle, archive, record, diary, report, narrative, account, study, tale, story, saga; memoir. 3. she gave details of her history synonyms: background... |
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intimate
...buddy. 2. in an intimate atmospheresynonyms: informal, warm, cozy, friendly, comfortable, snug; inf. comfy. 3. a diary giving intimate detailssynonyms: personal, private, confidential, secret, privy. 4. his intimate viewssynonyms: private... |
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itinerary
...plan/schedule, schedule, timetable, program; travel arrangements. 3. keep an itinerary of foreign journeyssynonyms: diary, journal, logbook, daybook, log, record. 4. a considerable number of itineraries are in publicationsynonyms: guidebook... |
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log
...trunk; piece of wood; (logs) timber, firewood. 2. a log of phone calls synonyms: record, register, logbook, journal, diary, minutes, chronicle, daybook, record book, ledger, account, tally. • verb 1. all complaints are logged synonyms... |
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sanitize
...best way to sanitize a bottle synonyms: sterilize, disinfect, clean, cleanse, purify, fumigate, decontaminate. 2. the diaries have not been sanitized synonyms: make presentable, make acceptable, make palatable, clean up; expurgate, bowdlerize... |
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schedule
...schedulesynonyms: timetable, plan, scheme, program. 2. a busy schedulesynonyms: appointment list, list of appointments, diary, calendar, social calendar, itinerary, agenda. 3. a schedule of services/equipmentsynonyms: list, catalog, syllabus... |
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DIARIES AND DISPLACEMENT IN WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
...Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal...understanding both the diary and its appearances...himself--use their diaries to deal precisely...novel, then, the diary itself becomes...s own quasi-diary serves as an effective...consideration ... |
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Diaries and diaspora identity: rethinking Russian emigration in China.(Book...
...review here are the diary of P. V. Vologodskii and the joint diaries of I. I. Serebrennikov...Beyond making the diaries available in print...that Vologodskii's diary gives on the Omsk...Government. The diary ends shortly ... |
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Nielsen unveils updated diaries; Improvements aimed at increasing...
...addition to the changes in the diaries themselves, Nielsen is sending out more diaries in an attempt to raise...has dipped so low in some diary-only markets that Nielsen...moved to the front of the diary. The diaries are published in ... |
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PACKWOOD ALTERED DIARIES, LAWYERS SAY.(MAIN)
...committee began reviewing the diaries in early October. When...turning over further diary entries, the committee...20 to subpoena the diaries and, when Packwood disobeyed...subpoena because the diaries may be in jeopardy...Senator Packwood's ... |
 "The Independent on Sunday (London, England)")
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The diary they don't want you to read: Cabinet Secretary bans spin- doctor's...
...should publish a daily diary he kept during his Downing...adamantly denies that his diary contains anything intended...surrounded the publication of diaries by the Labour cabinet...allowed to publish books or diaries. A ban will give this...I have seen this ... |
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Dear diary
...faster servers to changing and customizing diary layouts. Online diaries, such as Teen Open Diary at www.teenopendiary.com and Diary Land...journal and read other people's public diaries. Diary authors can write entries any ... |
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Diary of Byrd's North Pole Flight Examined by Experts
...North Pole. The diary includes not only...And what's in the diaries that convinces you...information in the diaries about reaching the...never released this diary to anyone. And he...you come across the diaries? RAIMUND GOERLER...artifact, ... |
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Using Diaries for Social Research.(Book review)
...located definitions of diaries. Here an historical...insight to the diversity of diary writing and purposes...Chapter Two--Researching Diaries-important links are...to analyse data from diary interview. In the final...Potential of Research ... |
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Why diaries never date; Most of us have kept a diary; indeed many start every...
...Klemperer was forced to keep his diary secret. Had it been found...and killed. He knew that his diary could be a passport to a concentration...those numb times, keeping a diary was crucial, an act of defiance...of ordinary human beings kept diaries who might ... |
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Diary Jnr prepares for a new career -- asylum smuggling. (Diary).
The Diary thinks it's about time we gave our illegitimate...suggestions have been mentioned, but the Diary -- who doesn't have the most personalised of names -- has decided to opt for Diary Jnr. As a matter of fact, the Diary didn... |
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