Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  Chapter FiveThe Darker Side From: Captured Hearts |
Chapter Five explores the darker side of the war bride experience, as many of these women and their children experienced less than ideal lives after their arrival in New Brunswick. Focusing on … | Melynda Jarratt | 14 | 2008 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter FiveFrom: Rooms |
This chapter explores the author’s attempts to understand their own identity as a person and a writer. They muse on the concept of having/needing "a room of one’s own" and … | Sina Queyras | 27 | 2022 | $2.70 Add |
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From Chapter FourContinental War Brides From: Captured Hearts |
Chapter Four examines the experience of the war bride who came from the continent. Unlike their British counterparts, these brides from France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands had … | Melynda Jarratt | 20 | 2008 | $2.00 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter FourFrom: Rooms |
The author outlines some thoughts on Woolf, writing, language, queerness, trauma and sexual assault, relationships and abuse, and dealing with the past. | Sina Queyras | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
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From Chapter OneBritish War Brides From: Captured Hearts |
Chapter One explores the experiences of New Brunswick servicemen while overseas in Great Britain as well as the experiences of civilian women across Great Britain throughout the Second World War. … | Melynda Jarratt | 16 | 2008 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter OneFrom: Rooms |
The author talks about the process of starting this book, Virginia Woolf scholarship and her and her books’ presence/form in popular culture, and their own experiences in life and in school. | Sina Queyras | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter SixFrom: Rooms |
Set in 2021 in Montreal, this final chapter explores the question of how to make a writing life, and how the author has ended up where they are in life. It continues to examine the concepts of … | Sina Queyras | 34 | 2022 | $3.40 Add |
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From Chapter ThreeSettling In From: Captured Hearts |
Chapter Three focuses on how these women and their husbands settled back into civilian life in New Brunswick after the war. It focuses on the hardships, isolation, cultural and religious … | Melynda Jarratt | 20 | 2008 | $2.00 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter ThreeFrom: Rooms |
The author continues to speak on their life, writing, experiences in school, career, gender and queerness, influences, thoughts on Woolf, and health issues. | Sina Queyras | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From Chapter TwoMarriage and Travel to Canada From: Captured Hearts |
Chapter Two explore what life was like for these women after marriage and how they travelled to their new homes across the Atlantic. This chapter highlights the formal approval process from the … | Melynda Jarratt | 22 | 2008 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter TwoFrom: Rooms |
The author discusses creativity and the writing process, Virginia Woolf’s life and works, Constance Rooke, and women writing. | Sina Queyras | 27 | 2022 | $2.70 Add |
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From  Chapters 1-20From: Double Pregnant |
Natalie Meisner | 64 | 2014 | $6.40 Add | |
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From  NEW! Chapters 1-5From: My Road from Damascus |
Includes the chapters "Silver Charm and Apple Trees", "Despair Was the Secret of My Courage", "Holy", "From Syria’s Next Great Writer to Dog Food", … | Jamal Saeed | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
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From NEW! Chapters 11-15From: My Road from Damascus |
Includes the chapters "We Didn’t Mean to Get Married", "My First Interrogation Session", "Cell Number Four", "Birds and Jinn", and "Show Me … | Jamal Saeed | 31 | 2022 | $3.10 Add |
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From NEW! Chapters 16-20From: My Road from Damascus |
Includes the chapters "Geography and Galileo Destroyed My Piety", "The Radio War of 1967", "Haifa and the Breaker of Shackles", "A Small Black Radio", and … | Jamal Saeed | 33 | 2022 | $3.30 Add |
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From NEW! Chapters 21-25From: My Road from Damascus |
Includes the chapters "First Steps Underground", "Looking for a Ceiling to Sleep Under", "Saint Sister Theresa", "Doomsday (February 1981)", and … | Jamal Saeed | 53 | 2022 | $5.30 Add |
