Handwritten : remarkable people on the page / Lesley Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Lesley (Lesley Janette), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Written communication--History.

Written communication.

Writing--History.

Writing.

Celebrities--Correspondence.

Celebrities.

Physical Description:

319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2023.

Summary:

"The less it is part of everyday life, the more the appeal of handwriting grows. This wonderful selection of treasures from the Bodleian Library introduces remarkable individuals through documents written by their own hands. From the second century BCE to the present, individual lives and relationships are illuminated through the writing that has been left behind. We see Elizabeth I attempting to win over her new stepmother, Alan Bennett working out the character of Mr Toad, Henry Moore advising soap and water for cleaning sculpture and Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin balancing childcare with discovering the structure of penicillin. Here you will find letters, first drafts, autograph albums and hastily scribbled notes, fair copies, marked-up proofs and doodles. Divided into themed categories, the entries feature novelists Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler; scientists Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein; reformers Emmeline Pankhurst, Florence Nightingale and Mohandas Gandhi; and explorers Walter Ralegh, T.E. Lawrence and Patrick Leigh Fermor among many others. Each of these extraordinary people has passed on a manuscript or document with a fascinating story to tell"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

The Tudor Court

Poets and novelists

Scientists

Reformers

Friends and rivals

Travellers and adventures

Composers

Writers for children

Spies and detectives

Families

Scribes and calligraphers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781851245956

1851245952

OCLC:

1400110825