The Shirley Letters

Author : Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
Publisher : Heyday
ISBN 13 : 9781890771003
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shirley Letters from the California Mines, 1851-1852 written by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe and published by Heyday. This book was released on 1998 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneer woman describes life near a northern California mining camp during the fabled "gold rush."

Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0593134648
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Shirley Jackson written by Shirley Jackson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS • “This biography-through-letters gives an intimate and warm voice to the imagination behind the treasury of uncanny tales that is Shirley Jackson’s legacy.”—Joyce Carol Oates Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest chroniclers of the female experience. This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Jackson’s beloved fiction: flashes of the uncanny in the domestic, sparks of horror in the quotidian, and the veins of humor that run through good times and bad. i am having a fine time doing a novel with my left hand and a long story—with as many levels as grand central station—with my right hand, stirring chocolate pudding with a spoon held in my teeth, and tuning the television with both feet. Written over the course of nearly three decades, from Jackson’s college years to six days before her early death at the age of forty-eight, these letters become the autobiography Shirley Jackson never wrote. As well as being a bestselling author, Jackson spent much of her adult life as a mother of four in Vermont, and the landscape here is often the everyday: raucous holidays and trips to the dentist, overdue taxes and frayed lines of Christmas lights, new dogs and new babies. But in recounting these events to family, friends, and colleagues, she turns them into remarkable stories: entertaining, revealing, and wise. At the same time, many of these letters provide fresh insight into the genesis and progress of Jackson’s writing over nearly three decades. The novel is getting sadder. It’s always such a strange feeling—I know something’s going to happen, and those poor people in the book don’t; they just go blithely on their ways. Compiled and edited by her elder son, Laurence Jackson Hyman, in consultation with Jackson scholar Bernice M. Murphy and featuring Jackson’s own witty line drawings, this intimate collection holds the beguiling prism of Shirley Jackson—writer and reader, mother and daughter, neighbor and wife—up to the light.

Author : Dame Shirley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 written by Dame Shirley and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educated in Amherst, Massachusetts, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819-1906) accompanied her physician-husband to California in 1849. The couple first lived in mining camps where Dr. Clappe practiced medicine and then moved to San Francisco, where Mrs. Clappe taught in the public schools for more than twenty years. The Shirley letters (1922) is the book edition of a series of letters written by Mrs. Clappe to her sister in 1851 and 1852. They were first published under the pseudonym of "Dame Shirley" in the Pioneer magazine, 1854-55. In these letters Louise Clappe writes of life in San Francisco and the Feather River mining communities of Rich Bar and Indian Bar. She focuses on the experiences of women and children, the perils of miners' work, crime and punishment, and relations with native Hispanic residents and Native Americans. Bret Harte is said to have based two of his stories on the "Shirley" letters.

Author : Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shirley Letters from the California Mines, 1851-1852 written by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three letters written by the author to her sister, Mary Jane, in Massachusetts, under the pseud., Dame Shirley.

Author : Shirley Strawberry
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0345525515
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strawberry Letter written by Shirley Strawberry and published by One World. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen up, ladies! Shirley Strawberry, co-host of the nationally syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Show, delivers more of the no-nonsense woman-to-woman straight talk her listeners have come to love. Shirley tells it like it is—from the heart. Now, in this uplifting motivational guide, she brings her vivacious, inspirational, and down-to-earth message to women everywhere: Get up, get out, and be the best you can be! This call to action helps women look at their lives with a candid eye and tackle such issues as: • Love and Relationships: the highs and lows of dating, marriage, and breakups • Family: the challenges of being a great mom • Sisterhood: ways to get (and give) the support you need to stay sane • Self: tips for overcoming low self-esteem and depression, and finding balance, faith, and acceptance Full of motivating “Strawberry Tips,” personal stories, and helpful suggestions for drama-stuck girlfriends, this book encourages you to love yourself and your life!

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shirley Letters from the California Mines, 1851-1852 written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher : The Creative Company
ISBN 13 : 9781583415849
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lottery written by Shirley Jackson and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seemingly ordinary village participates in a yearly lottery to determine a sacrificial victim.

Author : Russel Thomas C.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780259670940
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 written by Russel Thomas C. and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9781942084518
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Shirley written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation on coming out and love through the decades.

Author : Dame Shirley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 written by Dame Shirley and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educated in Amherst, Massachusetts, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819-1906) accompanied her physician-husband to California in 1849. The couple first lived in mining camps where Dr. Clappe practiced medicine and then moved to San Francisco, where Mrs. Clappe taught in the public schools for more than twenty years. The Shirley letters (1922) is the book edition of a series of letters written by Mrs. Clappe to her sister in 1851 and 1852. They were first published under the pseudonym of "Dame Shirley" in the Pioneer magazine, 1854-55. In these letters Louise Clappe writes of life in San Francisco and the Feather River mining communities of Rich Bar and Indian Bar. She focuses on the experiences of women and children, the perils of miners' work, crime and punishment, and relations with native Hispanic residents and Native Americans. Bret Harte is said to have based two of his stories on the "Shirley" letters.