Beyond words : 200 years of illustrated diaries / Susan Snyder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snyder, Susan, 1948-

Series:

Series of keepsakes issued for its members by the Friends of the Bancroft Library ; no. 56.

Number fifty-six of the 2011 Bancroft Keepsake for friends of the Bancroft Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diaries--History and criticism.

Diaries.

Drawing--Themes, motives.

Drawing.

Penn Provenance:

Snyder, Susan, 1948- Autograph)

Smith, Paul, 1934-2024 (donor)

Physical Description:

149 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 30 cm.

Other Title:

200 years of illustrated diaries

Two hundred years of illustrated diaries

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday : Bancroft Library, University of California, [2011]

Summary:

Offering insights into the diverse motives for keeping diaries, Snyder (Bancroft Library, U. of California, Berkeley), a diarist herself, introduces journals illustrated with drawings and photographs that provide insights into their writer's lives, dreams, and times. Well-known diarists featured include Mark Twain, John Muir, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Others are lesser-known authors, activists, adult and adolescent travelers in the 18th to 20st centuries, a deaf woman, and a Japanese-American relocation camp internee during World War II who wrote that: "In my journal, I am at ease." With beautifully-reproduced illustrations, the landscape-formatted volume includes information about the Bancroft Library, the co- publisher. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

ISBN:

9781597141642

159714164X

OCLC:

697980092

Online:

Paul C. Smith Endowed Fund Home Page