"The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering and inspiring account of a life in books. Malorie Blackman OBE is one of Britain's best loved and most widely-read writers. For over thirty years, her books have helped to shape British ...
After taking over the publishing of the paper for a few months, Franklin left and travelled to Philadelphia via New York, where he first met his future wife – Miss Read – and again worked for a printers.而后,富兰克林接管了哥哥的印发报纸的工作(这里是因为哥哥被举报)。几个月后,他离开了波士...
A good example is the manuscript diary of Glückel of Hameln (1646-1724), now in the Bavarian State Library, originally intended just for her children, but which turned out to be a valuable source for Jewish life and commerce during her time. I aimed arbitrarily for an audience of Yale ...
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Then she baked bread and prepared for her guests who would come for Sunday dinner. She usually invited her sons, their wives and children, so I met all my aunts and uncles on Sundays. Behind Grandma’s house there was an alley. The trash man in his horse-drawn wagon picked up the ...
Too Long; Didn't Read[My father's autobiographical recollections, given in the present chapter, were written for his children,—and written without any thought that they would ever be published. To many this may seem an impossibility; but those who knew my father will understand how it was ...
Read More Sexual Autobiography I am the oldest and only girl of nine children, and I was raised by my mother for most of my life. She taught me (and only me) what sex is, its purposes, and the risks and sacrifices that come with engaging in sexual acts of any kind. She was techni...
than most, when children are forced to grow up in extreme or traumatic circumstances. Sometimes it can be difficult and painful. But it can also be wonderful. Whatever happens during one’s coming of age, it is a defining moment in a person’s life that is remembered for years to come....
to part children from their mothers at a very early age.Frequently,before the child has reached its twelfth month,its mother is taken from it,and hired out on some farm a considerable distance off,and the child is placed under the care of an old woman,too old for field labor.For what ...
McGrath loves his children and would do his best for them. I had the good chance to meet Paul McGrath. In 1994 my daughter and I had tickets for a friendly game against Germany in Hanover, which Ireland won. Crossing the hotel lobby, heading for the team bus to bring...