| 单词 | epistolary |
| 例句 | Every conversational and epistolary road sign and guide- post that she had held up before the girls pointed to their father’s final, terrible failure. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The epistolary form is not the only archaic thing about Mr Coates’s book. Letter of despair 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Her 1982 book, “The Color Purple” — an epistolary novel addressed largely to God, which focused on the experience of poor Black women in the American South — was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Alice Walker Has ‘No Regrets’ 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Her story bridges, much as Couto himself does, various narrative modes: the epistolary and the oracular, the chronicle of the colonial expedition and the fabulism of a universe unbounded by time. A Fable of Mozambique, Its Bloodshed and Myths 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z This epistolary vignette unfolds for three minutes, ends on a note of messy emotion, and in the next instant the sixth episode is playing. How Snap Originals Beat Facebook and Instagram in Adapting TV to Social Media 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z That said, Rivera Garza’s choice to place so much of the narrative into the hands of others — running seemingly unedited interview and epistolary sections — while preserving Liliana’s voice, also occasionally makes for a challenging read. A Sister’s Murder and the Language of Violence 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z “Widow’s Point,” a collaborative novella by the father-son team of Richard and Billy Chizmar, is an epistolary rendering of a classic horror trope: a psychic investigator’s encounter with a Bad Place and its animating spirits. Review | Horror novels are having a renaissance. Here’s what to read. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The character best developed in this haze of grief is the one who dies before we ever meet him — and to whom the narrator directs a kind of epistolary monologue. For the Love of a Dog 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z This intimate yet sometimes reserved epistolary film centers on a more contemporary moment in Paris as a woman named Audrey processes the death of a close friend. ‘A Woman Escapes’ Review: Screen Sharing 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z This is an epistolary novel presented as Beverley's journal, in which she writes her "past, present, future," and descriptions of pain from medical textbooks. The Gospel According to Cane by Courttia Newland – review 2013-03-01T17:00:01Z She added that when reading Frank’s diary, which is in epistolary form, she would think, “What does she say that might spark a response from him?” Spare Times Listings for Children for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z “It took me two days to construct this epistolary poem,” he writes. Going back to school with writers and the first things they wrote in 'Our Story Begins' 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Okpokwasili presents her “Bronx Gothic,” a performance piece that includes movement, spoken word and songs, and combines elements of the West African griot tradition and the 19th-century epistolary novel, on May 30. ArtsBeat: Artists in Residence at Park Avenue Armory 2013-04-19T20:17:33Z Much of the book is epistolary, and part of its charm comes from the reader’s being urged to make that empathetic leap into the minds of letter writers from another time. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘Prudencia Hart’ Sing Anew in London 2013-07-16T21:56:11Z If there was a golden age of the epistolary personal email, it most likely started in this period and ended sometime in the late aughts. A Eulogy for the Long, Intimate Email 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Sometimes Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was mentioned as a prototype, but according to literary dogma the novel experienced a kind of virgin birth with Pamela, Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel of 1740. The novel is centuries older than we've been told 2010-07-23T13:56:00Z Stranger still, he presents this in an epistolary form, writing not about her, but to her. Review | Stop feeling embarrassed by how much you love reality TV 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Before email, an international metal network was sustained from the West Midlands in epistolary form. Home Of Metal: a history of the heavy in seven objects 2011-07-08T23:11:04Z As evidence of the downturn, Mars compares some cherry-picked examples of epistolary smut with actual sexts she has solicited online. At Under the Radar, Stories Unfold via Sexts, Tweets and Puppeteers 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z This 1950s Egyptian epistolary novel is told by a young woman looking back on the misery, patriarchy and middle-class life that surrounded her upon her return from boarding school. Newly Published, From Musical Masterpieces to the End of Trump’s Presidency 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Kleinzahler and Ms. Davis each developed a close but almost exclusively epistolary friendship with Ms. Berlin. Lucia Berlin’s Roving, Rowdy Life Is Reflected in a Book of Her Stories 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Rooney is back with another bookish, epistolary novel — this time following two intelligent young adults navigating their personal lives amid the backdrop of environmental and social upheaval. 19 New Books Coming in September 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z These professionals, in turn, rose in status and wealth; the most successful – such as the Pastons of Norfolk, of epistolary fame – rose to the ranks of knighthood. For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:04Z Echoing James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me” and others, the project is epistolary: Guy frames the movie as an address to his young children. All Together Now for Tribeca Festival’s 20th Anniversary Edition 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, the affinity they felt for each other was clearly deep and passionate, even if mainly epistolary. ‘Meanwhile There Are Letters’ review: The rich friendship of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Hugo de Ana — who has worked here steadily as a director — oversaw this opera production, based on Goethe’s tragic epistolary novel of love. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z That sort of exchange gave them the idea for a modern-day epistolary novel about lovers named Madeline and Elliot, and their respective best friends, Emily and David, who serve as digital communication advisers. Sloane Crosley Unclasps Cloak of Secrecy About Authorship 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Apparently, the contemporary Woolfs are squandering their epistolary gems on Twitter and in emails. Don't write off literary letters 2010-10-11T11:38:00Z In this way, email by email, Rutter wooed Ephron, and after a few weeks of potent correspondence, they met in person and their epistolary romance blossomed into the real thing. Delia Ephron Writes Her Way Through Cancer to a Happy Ending 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z It was the beginning of a epistolary friendship. ArtsBeat: JFK Library Unveils Hemingway Letters 2012-03-28T19:57:08Z It also contains manuscripts and correspondence dating from the 1940s to the 1960s, including a letter in which Kerouac teased Ginsberg about his promiscuous epistolary habits. Emory Acquires Trove of Rare Jack Kerouac Material 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The novel splits into two interlacing narratives, presented in different fonts: an epistolary account of the violent agrarian movement through Supratik’s eyes; and in counterpoint, a third-person account of the Ghosh family’s intrigue and privilege. Book review: ‘The Lives of Others,’ by Neel Mukherjee “Horror, suspense, confessional, epistolary tale, recovery memoir, cautionary tale, even ... paranoiac noir — Petty leaps from genre to genre with dizzying velocity” to show “the way trauma works on us.” New in Paperback: ‘Aftershocks’ and ‘Here We Are’ 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z I spoke with her about one of Leonard Cohen’s greatest songs, the role of memory in fiction, and the epistolary structure of the book. Samantha Harvey: “We don’t always have to write about women in the context of their relationships with men” 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Bradley establishes first contact after going through a list of family members of victims murdered by his brother, and the play takes the form of an epistolary tale. Review: Two Lives and Two Playwrights ‘Entangled’ by Gunfire 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z But where its source material, Alice Walker’s epistolary novel about black women living in the South in the 1930s, is gritty and raw, Spielberg’s adaptation trends toward soft and pretty. Steven Spielberg’s 3 Biggest Failures, According to Steven Spielberg 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Directed by May Adrales, “Letters of Suresh” is, as the title suggests, an epistolary play, with a script composed entirely of letters. ‘Letters of Suresh’ Review: Returning to the Fold 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z A sort of modern epistolary novel, the book incorporates emails, memos, handwritten letters, magazine articles, police reports and other written materials. Richard Linklater may answer 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z The new epistolary memoirs, however, are less interested in stitching a life into a tidy narrative shroud than in ripping it from its seams. In Letters to the World, a New Wave of Memoirs Draws on the Intimate 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z There are plot strands that go nowhere, and an epistolary section that is essentially a collection of sketches. The Diary of a Dr Who Addict by Paul Magrs 2010-05-21T23:07:00Z An Instance of the Fingerpost by Ian Pears Set just after the Restoration, when conspiracies were rife, this epistolary novel features a quartet of unreliable narrators giving their versions of the same series of events. Val McDermid's top 10 Oxford novels 2010-09-24T09:37:00Z Based on an early, little-known epistolary novella called “Lady Susan,” “Love & Friendship” is a reminder that Austen was not only a brilliant architect of screen-friendly plots but also a very funny writer. Review: In ‘Love & Friendship,’ Austen Meets Whit Stillman 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z In 2012, Christine Love’s Analogue: A Hate Story smartly turned the epistolary novel into an interstellar interactive mystery to tell an allegory about Korean history. Text Games in a New Era of Stories 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z These kinds of details sparkle through this book’s epistolary memories. Review: In ‘Dear Mr. You,’ Mary-Louise Parker Writes to Men, With Lust and Rue 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Many are bits of epistolary ephemera, including at least one shopping list. John Lennon's letters to be published as app 2012-11-09T12:55:53Z They contained an epistolary record: every word my grandfather wrote in jail. My aging parents smuggle medical marijuana 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z If “Clarissa” is an epistolary novel, then so, really, is “The Post Card” — and then half of “Tristram Shandy” is speculative philosophy. Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z I can think of one writer of my acquaintance who has actively solicited fellow correspondents, inviting them to join him in an epistolary exchange. Don't write off literary letters 2010-10-11T11:38:00Z With a somewhat tedious diary and epistolary format, the story spans a seven-year period beginning in 1905: The sisters are in their early 20s, immersed in their circle of artists and intellectuals. Stephen May’s ‘Wake Up Happy Every Day,’ and More 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The epistolary form enables Saavedra to introduce anonymity and missed encounters into a modern world defined by traceability and instant communication. Contemporary Brazil, Captured in Two Novels and a Journalist’s Collection 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z A powerful memoir such as this benefits greatly from this epistolary structure. Review | Akwaeke Emezi’s memoir is a healing ritual for the displaced 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Naturally, because we were both a mess, it didn’t really end there – accidental drunken hookups continued and epistolary relations via email carried on too. I dated my university professor – and it was a messy, eye-opening experience 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z The story of a teenage girl forced by her parents into a nightmarish convent, “La Religieuse” is based on Denis Diderot’s 18th-century epistolary novel. ‘La Religieuse,’ a Culture War Casualty of 1960s France 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z An epistolary novel, he decided, was the only way to tackle a subject he had spent decades trying to crack: Moses. Herman Wouk on His New Book, ‘The Lawgiver’ 2012-11-12T20:06:04Z For someone with “an aversion to the epistolary art,” however, Mailer spun out letters maniacally, some 45,000 of them over the course of his career. ‘Selected Letters,’ Norman Mailer’s Correspondence 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z At a time when epistolary novels seem almost quaint, Roxy’s letters reinvigorate the form. Review | ‘The Roxy Letters’ is just the kind of comic novel we need right now 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z It's an old chestnut that innovative fiction piggybacks on established modes of communication, that all those letters flying around prompted Samuel Richardson to write an epistolary novel. The future is digital 2010-12-18T00:07:32Z Some of the better moments in this epistolary memoir involve discussions of sex, most of which are more or less unprintable here. Books of The Times: ‘Love, Nina,’ by Nina Stibbe 2014-04-21T21:47:49Z But surely it was the fact that the relationship was primarily epistolary that made it possible for him to express himself so openly. Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The emotions are as recognizable and the wit is as fresh as in that epistolary snippet. A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The postcard may have been more his epistolary genre than the shapely missive, since the task of describing his complicated logistics sometimes overwhelmed composition. The Wanderer 2011-02-25T17:39:26Z He took a while to develop a comfortable epistolary voice, but hit his stride relatively quickly. Books of The Times: ‘The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan’ 2014-04-16T21:14:50Z Acerbic, witty, often brief and almost always entertaining, Bellow's letters, due to be published in book form later this year, are a poignant reminder of why writers' epistolary exchanges often prove so popular with readers. Epistles at dawn: the dying art of letter writing 2010-06-23T13:42:00Z This second installment moves from an epistolary approach to a full-on narrative one and is, if possible, even funnier than its predecessor. Review | A thriller set in Trump’s America is among the best audiobooks of the month 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z His one book was, for its time, a revolutionary exercise in modernism: non-fiction organised in the epistolary style of experimental 18th-century fiction, and daring to pay the same attention and respect to crickets as churchgoers. Richard Mabey: in defence of nature writing 2013-07-18T13:00:02Z He has an epistolary gift for writing much but saying little. John le Carré: The Spy Novelist Who (Mostly) Kept Quiet 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z It uses an antiquarian style illustrated by Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night, or What You Will,” and which blossomed in the 18th century with such works as Samuel Richardson’s epistolary novel “Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded.” So, You’re Going to Call Your Play _____? 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The first stop was the village of Clarens, where the most beloved novel of their era, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s epistolary love story, “Julie, or the New Héloïse” was composed and set. Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z “She writes about such places from what you might call an exalted literary remove. The mode is epistolary, poetic, occasionally honest to a fault … and moral.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z That epistolary form sounds impossibly restrictive, but Fitger’s letters to colleagues, agents, friends and managers gradually created a whole world and a bright, thwarted man trying to survive within it. Review | Irritated by tweedy academic types? Read this wonderful campus comedy. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z A rare sustained epistolary romance, “Hank and Asha” runs on video recordings instead of pen and paper. Movie Review: ‘Hank and Asha,’ a Video Love Story 2014-04-10T23:16:27Z Montgomery was putting a movie spin on a literary technique that spans a half-millennium: the epistolary novel, in which the narrative was revealed through letters and other documents. Chronicle: It's Carrie Plus X-Men, With Found Footage 2012-02-02T16:41:05Z You heard me correctly: “Dear Committee Members” is an example of that endangered species, the epistolary novel, composed entirely of letters of recommendation written by Fitger in the course of an academic year. A Letter of Recommendation 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Susa, who died in 2013, and his librettist, Philip Littell, dealt with the novel’s epistolary format by devising a series of scenes that shift among different characters and locations. Review: ‘The Dangerous Liaisons,’ Lush Music of Malice 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Quick comparative literary judgments became an epistolary specialty: “when she is good + sick from Durrell’s sticky liqueurs, have her try ‘The Towers of Trebizond’ by Rose Macaulay at 80 — the driest champagne.” In James Merrill’s Letters, a Workshop and a Stage for the Poet’s Wit 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Mortality hangs over epistolary dramas in a way that other plays can more easily escape. The Drama of Letters, Swirling With Suspense 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z When I was in college in America, I began an intermittent epistolary relationship with Nadine, first about her writing and then about mine. Whiskey, potato chips and a Nobel prize: Nadine Gordimer, my friend 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z I read Asimov's stories after that, and they were as good as I recall them from my first reading, which was probably around the time of Piers and Kathryn's epistolary relationship. The private life of books 2010-04-07T10:16:00Z They fell in love, to all appearances – and if you think you have to meet someone in person to fall in love, you have never read a 19th-century epistolary romance. “A Gay Girl in Damascus”: Behind the twisted tale of a blogger who “catfished” the whole world 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z A classic of the epistolary genre that simultaneously gets to grips with desire, sexual mores and social relations. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z She struggled with those relations, in New York and when she came back home, at the start of the pandemic in March 2020, writing version after version, in first person, in close third, purely epistolary. ‘It Was Like I’d Never Done It Before’: How Sally Rooney Wrote Again 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Horror, suspense, confessional, epistolary tale, recovery memoir, cautionary tale, even, late in the novel, paranoiac noir — Petty leaps from genre to genre with dizzying velocity. A Spellbinding Debut Leaps Across Genres to Recreate the Confusion of Trauma 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z And a version of those letters became the epistolary framing for the novel, which came together in only three months. Andrew Holleran’s Work Has Traced the Arc of Life. Now, He Takes on Death. 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Gurney’s “Love Letters,” a two-character epistolary play that has long been a favorite of famous actors, with producers aiming to mount the show at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in the fall. Producers Aim to Bring 'Love Letters' to Broadway This Fall 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z I also recently read the Lowell-Hardwick correspondence, “The Dolphin Letters,” which reads like an engrossing epistolary novel from some postwar American Bloomsbury. Attention, Working Writers: Lorrie Moore Admires What You Do 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Reading the galley, you get a little bit of the sense of an epistolary novel, because the quality of the letters is so high. The Trailblazer: Q&A with Wild author and advice columnist Cheryl Strayed 2012-06-14T14:46:49Z Starting off in the first person, the story sometimes turns into an epistolary novel, with e-mails instead of letters. Book World: Denis Johnson’s ‘The Laughing Monsters’ offers more than formulaic thrill Gurney knew exactly what he was doing when he wrote “Love Letters,” a classic of the epistolary genre whose durability is due in no small part to its status as a magnet for celebrity casts. The Drama of Letters, Swirling With Suspense 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z But now it seems that Vlad the Impaler, namesake of Bram Stoker's 1897 epistolary horror, may have even wept literal tears of blood, as described in the oldest stories about him. Dracula may have wept blood on tear-stained letters, chemical analysis reveals 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z The letters flow back and forth across the Thames, Crewe’s nod to the epistolary form popularized by “Dracula” and other 19th-century fictions. Review | The spirit of E.M. Forster hangs over Tom Crewe’s ‘The New Life’ 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The challenge of an epistolary book is that the format can be confining, but for such a character-driven novel, it creates intimacy instead of limitations. Review | In Matthew Quick’s ‘We Are the Light,’ a grieving town finds hope 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Concurrent with epistolary dalliance, Eliot was discovering himself to be “a classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion.” Review | T.S. Eliot wrote of waste and woe. His private life provided material. 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Following Cushman’s epistolary structure, “Catherine Called Birdy” unfolds as a series of diary entries, narrated in a self-satisfied tone that grates over time. Review | ‘Catherine Called Birdy’ is a sprightly critique of the patriarchy 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z During my monthlong writing residency, I had no cell service, so I struck up an epistolary romance with Jason, my partner of 11 years. His PTSD, and My Struggle to Live With It 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Artistically, there’s nothing wrong with this — it comprises a kind of epistolary play, like “Love Letters,” within the play. ‘The Girl From Plainville' changes the true crime it depicts. Mostly, it works 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Rigetti’s debut is a clever epistolary novel with an elegant con woman at its center — in other words, perfect escapism for this moment. Moira Macdonald picks 15 of the most anticipated books of 2022 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z From their distant outposts, Cranor and Matthewson write, produce and perform “Within the Wires,” an unusual epistolary podcast that has just spawned their first standalone novel, “You Feel It Just Below the Ribs.” How a fiction podcast empire spawned a deeply weird dystopian novel 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Charles’ sections are written to his wife, in a nod to the epistolary form of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” Why an acclaimed L.A. mystery writer turned to vampire bikers in the desert 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z As a teenager, she wrote poetry and an epistolary novel; in her early 20s, she struck up a correspondence with the poet Alexander Pope. How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z In the case of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker, poets and public intellectuals, a friendship to a great extent epistolary flourished despite the geographical distance — Lorde was in New York City, Parker in California. How Friendship Helps Us Transcend Ourselves 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z The two struck up an epistolary romance and were married in 1969. They’re worried their mom is becoming a conspiracy theorist. She thinks they’re the ones living in a fantasy world. Matthewson was intrigued when Cranor floated the epistolary concept — and sold when he added, “I’m not particularly interested in telling a story that centers around men.” How a fiction podcast empire spawned a deeply weird dystopian novel 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Stokes says he’s working on another book, too: “an epistolary memoir,” he says. W. Royal Stokes has lived a jazz life as unpredictable as the music 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Containing simulacra of handwritten and typed letters, telegrams, and other artifacts — such as a Broadway ticket stub — the mailings will evoke the bantering epistolary courtship between Jack, a U.S. Arena Stage creates a series of nine snail-mailings for fans for ‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise’ 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Indeed, it is generally agreed that Austen's most famous work, Pride and Prejudice, began as an epistolary novel called First Impressions, consisting exclusively of letters between the characters. How the corona bailout fell apart 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z But Lana Condor and Noah Centino bring an enchanting freshness to the proceedings, and the epistolary framework of the story is a delight. From ‘Fame’ to ‘The Half of It,’ our movie critic shares 10 of her back-to-school favorites 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Chosen by readers from a list of epistolary novels, “Dear Committee Members” is the latest selection for Moira’s Seattle Times Book Club, meeting next on Wednesday, June 24. Meet the university professor who turned writing letters of recommendation into a humorous, bestselling novel 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z And as we saw, Adams and Jefferson, when both were retired, and with adequate distance between them, engaged for two more decades in the most elegant epistolary friendship in American history. The climate crisis must reunite America — and yes, that could happen 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z “Was this an epistolary romance they would carry across the Atlantic?” T.S. Eliot letters to muse to be unveiled after 60 years 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Bearing in mind the epistolary origins of the novel as a literary invention, one can regard the results—sixty years of correspondence progressing to a narrative—as another Ellisonian magnum opus, one necessarily unfinished. Ralph Ellison’s Slow-Burning Art 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z The epistolary form of the 1868 novel matched the punctuated reading of the subway nook. Reading Nook: For Rivka Galchen, subways are for reading 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z Two of her novels are epistolary, so that the characters take turns speaking in the first person. Rediscovering Natalia Ginzburg 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” is both an immigrant novel and a work of autofiction; it is also an epistolary novel, written, loosely, as a letter to the narrator’s mother, which she will never read. Ocean Vuong’s Life Sentences 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Here began an old-fashioned correspondence that bloomed into a friendship, part of an unusual epistolary campaign initiated by San Diego State professors and others in suburban San Diego. ‘A Light for Me in the Darkness’: For Migrant Detainees, a Bond Forged by Letter 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z We are living in a great epistolary age, even if no one much acknowledges it. Sally Rooney Gets in Your Head 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The original “Guernsey” novel is an epistolary one, and the letters these two exchange are some of the film’s best moments. Review: Netflix's ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’ is a pleasant throwback romance with a sparkling Lily James 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Mikhail Shishkin does something similar in his epistolary masterpiece The Light and the Dark, set simultaneously at different ends of the 20th century. Book clinic: what are the best contemporary Russian novels? 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z The "Indian Sick" chapter begins as an epistolary piece to Casey about how I am not too much or too broken to be loved and accepted. The art of a revealing memoir: Terese Marie Mailhot and 'Heart Berries' 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z I just cut everything except for the epistolary stuff. Chelsey Johnson walks the 'Stray City' streets of Portland, Ore., with Carrie Brownstein 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Emergency Contact is little more than a sweet, breezy, epistolary romance by design. Emergency Contact is a dreamy YA love story told through texts 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Spandex has simplified couture, wigs no longer require powder and, thanks to social media and smartphones, epistolary romances can be conducted in real time. Liaisons, yes. Dangerous, not so much: Antaeus revives Christopher Hampton's tale of sexual conquest – LA Times 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z I’ve played with different ideas when I started writing Sleeping Giants, but I knew from the start I was going to use an epistolary format. How author Sylvain Neuvel finds the human heart in his giant robot thrillers 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z I had come to the library to reconnect with a small piece of personal history, the missing half of an epistolary exchange. Trying to Remember J.F.K. 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The shrewd, careful talker he presents, ethically ambiguous but credibly breathing, feels very much an extension of the epistolary Lincoln. George Saunders Gets in Lincoln’s Head 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z The two met in the summer of 1794 and carried on a warm epistolary relationship. Napoleon Bonaparte, failed novelist: manuscript goes to auction 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z As the English canon’s best-known writer of epistolary novels, Richardson would seem likely to be a noteworthy letter writer in private life. The Prude Who Invented the Modern Novel 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z In Stanton’s epistolary first act, the pair’s correspondence becomes increasingly fractured, until their emails and letters are no longer arriving. A little trip into the ‘Twilight Zone’ with Washington Ensemble Theatre 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Plenty of epistolary novels are much finer and less silly, however, than those 18th-century romps. Lena Dunham and why 2015 was the year of the email newsletter 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Hey Harry, Hey Matilda is an epistolary novel of correspondence between the title siblings, who share the mundane details of their lives, reflections on their childhood and concerns about the future. This Haunting Novel About Twins Is Being Told On Instagram 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z “The epistolary form is not the only archaic thing about Mr Coates’s book,” the reviewer writes, apparently unaware that Coates is very deliberately referencing James Baldwin’s “Letter to My Nephew” with this format. The Economist: Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” is “just good enough to get away with” justifying its existence 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The novel closes with a last word from our zealous author, who briefly tears off his epistolary robes to list the various moral teachings the book contains, in case we somehow missed them. The Prude Who Invented the Modern Novel 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Batra's debut film The Lunchbox was an epistolary romance where a young housewife's lovingly cooked lunches meant for her distant husband are mistakenly delivered to an older lonely man. India director Ritesh Batra to adapt Julian Barnes' Booker novel - BBC News 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The best of the gothics, like Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Woman in White, are all epistolary novels. Lena Dunham and why 2015 was the year of the email newsletter 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Bonenberger chronicled his experiences in epistolary form, basing his memoir Afghan Post on letters and emails that he sent and received while he was in the military. Bridging the Civilian-Military Divide With Stories 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z A personal history that delves into an epistolary World War II romance and its improbable discovery many years later. 14 from ‘14: The Best LongReads From Newsweek Stories told through the medium of letters, epistolary novels, were a popular form from the 1480s. Computers detecting sarcasm better than humans? Yeah, right 2013-07-04T14:30:02Z It's an epistolary novel addressed by the mother of a four-year-old boy killed in a terrorist attack to Osama bin Laden. Gold by Chris Cleave – review 2012-06-02T23:05:05Z Pliny’s natural history is taxed largely for characteristic contributions: the letters of his nephew, as well as of Seneca and Cicero, for epistolary style, as well as for philosophy, religious views, and the like. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Conversation in France is cultivated as an art, just the same as epistolary style: both form an important branch of female education. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Then we have twenty-one writings or letters addressed to different churches or individuals in the epistolary form of communication. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z The death of three of my best horses that fall diverted my interest; she ceased the epistolary courtship, and I continued to batch. The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z Hence they are especially numerous in the epistolary style of the apostle Paul.” The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z Their correspondence, in the words of Carlyle, “sparkles notably with epistolary grace and vivacity,” though now mainly interesting as an illustration of two memorable characters and of their century. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z I will give you, as a specimen of the agreeable epistolary style of my fair friend, the following communication, which reached me some two or three months after the marriage of her sister. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Moreover it was evident from this epistolary hint that Mr. Pitt would object to such a proceeding. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Jack's epistolary style was of a highly polite but rather unpractised order. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z But I have shown you ere this that epistolary decorum is a virtue I have ceased to pretend to. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z The epistolary form, which is retained in Parts I. and II., is accounted for by the relation of this new booklet to the original "Letter to an Inquirer," which is embodied in it. The History of the Ten "Lost" Tribes Anglo-Israelism Examined 2012-01-22T03:00:22.903Z Different occasions and subjects require, of course, as various styles of epistolary composition. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z You will doubtless imagine, that I derived my epistolary genius from my nurse; but when you are tired of my gossiping, you may burn the letter, so I shall go on. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z He makes frequent use of the epistolary form—a form which in prose and verse became one of the happiest products of Roman literature. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z No wonder you want epistolary balm if you're already in the fifties! The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Not content with their epistolary efforts, the ladies invoked the muse. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z The volume was, I think, "Hannah More's Memoirs," which had probably been recommended to the young student of our language by his teacher, or some friend, as containing good specimens of the epistolary style! The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Fulness and clearness were therefore the last qualities aimed at in their epistolary style, and inquiring posterity rues the result. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z There were times when Bob's spoken overflow struck me as the equivalent, for fine animation, of William's epistolary. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z Frank comforted the orphaned girl as best he could with epistolary kisses and condolences, and hoped she would get along pleasantly with her aunt till the necessity for that good relative vanished. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Uncle Joseph filled a fresh pipe, and began to stimulate his epistolary faculties by walking about the room. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Legibility, Intelligibility, and Accuracy are requisite in the direction of all epistolary compositions. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z The different forms employed in epistolary correspondence are numerous, far more numerous than generally supposed. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z The force and originality of Lord Acton's conversation are reflected, and may be inferred, from his epistolary style. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z His views were expressed with a na�vet� at the opposite pole from Box Hill on these high epistolary occasions. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z I am carrying on an epistolary acquaintance with a little miss of twelve, who has read half a dozen of my books—among the "worst" of them—and writes me letters of grave appreciation. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z I give birth mainly to guinea-pigs in the shape of post-cards; but despite such diversities of epistolary expression, the heart of each of us is in the right place. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Beethoven's epistolary style was simple, fervent, original, but certainly not polished. Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z When they descended Miss Donne was introduced to Mr. Palmer, who had been Annie's one topic in the epistolary communications with which Miss Donne was regularly favoured. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z In propriety, ease, vivacity and grace, they compare not unfavorably with the best epistolary collections; and in constant good sense, and occasional depth and eloquence, no letter-writer can be named as her superior. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z When he had left home his religious impressions were deepened by the epistolary admonitions of his mother, and by the religious instructions of his tutors. Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. 2011-10-13T02:00:37.230Z Dear Sully,—Your letter of Feb. 8th arrived duly and gave me much pleasure qua epistolary manifestation of sympathy, but less qua revelation of depression on your own part. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Some of the Bengalee Baboos read and write English with remarkable fluency, and the epistolary correspondence of most of them is commonly carried on in that language. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z It was occupied in writing, in a small epistolary correspondence, in walking about with me to visit different friends, occasionally lounging at coffee-houses and public places, or being visited by a select few. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z Before beginning these "Epistles," Vondel had translated many of the epistles of Ovid that he might absorb the grace and the spirit of Ovid's epistolary style. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z This power he habitually made subservient to the interests of religion; considering a talent for epistolary correspondence as involving serious responsibility. The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 2011-10-03T02:00:25.363Z Her first grief over—and it lasted but for a day—she resolved upon an epistolary feat of her own. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z In addition the young reporter published extracts from them in the Herald, editing them artfully, choosing the rare plums of anecdote or description in Ellen’s arid epistolary style. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z It appeared in 1693 in the first volume of his epistolary miscellany Letters of Love and Gallantry and Several Other Subjects. Olinda's Adventures: or the Amours of a Young Lady 2011-08-28T02:00:38.240Z Oh, well, the whole thing was so atrocious that I offered my friend the New York "Asteroid" in which to hurl back any epistolary thunderbolt he should care to manufacture. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z But when Nancy's letters promised to pass from pleading to epistolary tears, she at length yielded and late August found her the Langhams' guest for a final weekend. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z The epistolary manner noticeable in many prayers, especially at the beginning and the ending, seems to illustrate this. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z In the wake of the media attention that followed, Stephen King launched its own website in July 2000 to self-publish his epistolary novel “The Plant” in episodes. The eBook is 40 (1971-2011) 2011-08-08T02:00:19.250Z Although technically it may be called an epistolary novel, its author is no Richardson in marshalling the strategies of the epistolary technique. Olinda's Adventures: or the Amours of a Young Lady 2011-08-28T02:00:38.240Z The stilted and complimentary, as well as roundabout, epistolary style of those days is well known. Addresses & Papers / Collectanea 2011-08-04T02:00:22.097Z No traces exist of literature produced between the opening of the century and the epistolary activity of the apostle of the Gentiles. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z It is part print, part manuscript, ending with two epistolary accounts, if I remember rightly, of Guido’s execution, written by the lawyers in the case. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z With some of his intimate friends he had his established epistolary jokes. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z She sent him weekly, under cover to Albano,--once it was the reverse,--her epistolary sighs and tears, all which he coldly pocketed, without speaking of them or of the forlorn one. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z These are spiritual letters, of course, conferences in epistolary form. A Mediaeval Mystic A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael A.D. 1293-1381 2011-06-14T02:00:22.820Z Contemporary masters of elegiac and epistolary verse often deal with the metre more harshly and arbitrarily still. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Their epistolary correspondence was still carried on in Latin, and their first dramas were in the language of ancient Rome. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z These were the topics of epistolary discussion between him and a certain number of coadjutors, in different parts of the world. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z Had he foreseen that his epistolary confessions would bound and rebound in more hostile corners than his oral ones did aforetime, he would have prepared them otherwise. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z I am glad the letter is right, and knowing your great epistolary facilities, I don't feel as sorry as I ought to have interfered with your design. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z I should note down, and store up a thousand trifling, minute peculiarities, and lay them down in my epistolary cellars. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z In a more modern style of composition the epistolary form of dedication is still employed. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z The empty arbor was the best absorbing tear-siphon for his eyes; nay, I gather from reports of the epistolary Spitz that he was vexed. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z The departed were less inclined to epistolary efforts, and slate-writing was not conducted with any favorable results. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z It is not surprising to find many monologues in epistolary form. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z We may, of course, on the other hand, reckon upon a similar immortality for a piece of epistolary kindness. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z The epistolary habit, he maintained, was one that should be discouraged. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z At the last line of his epistolary song the door slowly opened. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z Besides the beginning preference for books on education, epistolary composition, the style of her work, was then in very general estimation. Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady 2011-04-19T02:00:19.607Z Coluccio Salutati, for example, whose Latin letters were regarded as models of epistolary style, employed Italian in less formal communications with his office. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The larger portion of his manhood's life spent in camp, under canvas—not the place for cultivating literary tastes or epistolary style—he is at best an indifferent correspondent, and knows it. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z The art of letter-writing is becoming obsolete; that is, the art of writing such letters as enriched the epistolary literature of a former generation. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z "Helen would like to study so great a master of epistolary flatteries," said the Knight, smiling; "and provided she will keep the whole for her private reading, I am willing to indulge her." The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z Her long epistolary controversy with Richardson, respecting 'Filial Obedience' generally, evidences great superiority of thought. Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady 2011-04-19T02:00:19.607Z While there, he received the epistolary congratulations of his friends on their success462, and in his answers he discloses all the delight of a gratified and successful author463. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Who knows that among this forest of treasonous scribbling, I may not find some flower of epistolary correspondence—a billet-doux. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Or—which is perhaps preferable—an epistolary censorship must commence. Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z In addition the young reporter published extracts from them in the Herald, editing them artfully, choosing the rare plums of anecdote or description in Ellen's arid epistolary style. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z If he wrote little that is narrowly belles-lettres, he need not be ashamed of his voluminous correspondence, in an age which saw the fruition of the epistolary art. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z In fact, all correspondence of an epistolary kind on Stormy’s part had been discontinued on the death of Ann! Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z Then Gibbs took his leave of his superior, and went back into the outer office to watch over the epistolary correspondence of Whitford. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z He began with an amiability that had no fault, except, perhaps, that it was a little forced after the epistolary strain in the study, and his welcome to Marjorie was more than cordial. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Viennet, a hot defender of lost causes, may be considered the latest of the epistolary poets of France. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z All these letters of his, in fact, are remarkable for one thing, even beyond the general tenor of the epistolary writing of his time, and that is their directness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z The larger portion of his manhood’s life spent in camp, under canvas—not the place for cultivating literary tastes or epistolary style—he is at best an indifferent correspondent, and knows it. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z I was delighted, only a few years ago, to find that "Uncle's" hand has not lost its epistolary cunning. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z No accomplishment within the scope of human knowledge is so beautiful in all its features as that of epistolary correspondence. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z Its beginning and close, which have epistolary character, are printed in Enders, II, no. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z For, as the reader may suspect, my friend Colonel Prowley was not inclined to slacken his epistolary attentions after the success of his little scheme, of which the particulars were given last April. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z Their epistolary friendship, the equivalent of meeting online today, becomes a romance. | New Jersey: As the World Turned for Women in 1905 2010-10-01T22:53:00Z The finer points of epistolary exchange are no longer observed. From writer with love 2010-02-19T18:08:00Z Without the ability to practice the refined art of epistolary correspondence, men would become cold and discordant: an isolated compound of misanthropy. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z So I took the pen, and demanded the ink, and wrote in an epistolary hand this couplet:— Fame hath recorded the virtues of the noble; but no one hath been able to reckon thine. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments The author was one of the cathedral staff at Toledo, and his book was thrown into epistolary form, almost every sentence being a popular adage. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources The following letter, principally on the same subject, is selected as one of the best specimens of Linnæus's epistolary style:— Linnæus to Mr Ellis. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History At first our correspondence added considerably to His Majesty's revenue; but our epistolary ardour soon cooled, till, at no very long interval, our correspondence fell into a gradual decline, and at last died away altogether. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 The epistolary is essentially different from the oratorical and the historical style. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams This is Roland Cashel's apartment; and, strange enough, instead of sleeping, he is up at his table, writing, too,—he, of all men the least epistolary. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) If I were not afraid lest you might deem it inconsistent with the dignity of the subject, I should request you to give me the summary of your philosophy of life, in an epistolary form. On the Heights A Novel Of the epistolary correspondence of this gentleman, and of Sir Hans Sloane, it may be interesting to some of our readers to peruse a specimen:— Dr Robinson to Mr Ray. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History She laid it down as a rule never to refuse or delay answering any application for epistolary advice, enduring the incessant interruptions with indefatigable kindness. Lives of Celebrated Women Among the ancients there are two illustrious examples of the epistolary style, Cicero and Pliny, whose letters present you with models of fine writing, which have borne the criticism of almost two thousand years. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams They contained specimens of everything epistolary which falls to the lot of those favored children of fortune who, having "much to give," are great favorites with the world. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) A letter has a voice of its own, and, while I write, I am reminded that your friend Horace wrote letters in verse and that the apostles also availed themselves of the epistolary form. On the Heights A Novel He was in fact one of those who earn their subsistence by writing letters for those who are deficient in the skill of penmanship or epistolary composition. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 It was that best and kindest of men, Robert Browning, who had given it me, and to this day, when I read it, it seems more like music than like epistolary prose to me. Fragments of an Autobiography Pope and Swift have given the world a collection of their letters; but I think in general they fall short, in the epistolary way, of their own eminence in poetry and other branches of literature. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams She was aware of her own lack of epistolary skill, and was in the habit of referring her friends to the Society papers for news of her doings. What a Man Wills Her literary and epistolary works and correspondence with the greatest men of her time prove her to have been a woman of extraordinary genius and literary capacity. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) This was not the easiest task in the world, for Sidney was more familiar with the text of Makrizi than with the epistolary correspondence of modern traders. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 At a later stage such formularies developed into the models and treatises for epistolary style which have had their imitations even in modern times. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" Of the epistolary productions of the Superintendent, it is hard to speak. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. That minister resembled his master, Philip the Second, in the fertility of his epistolary vein. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 The society in which he moved, and of which, to some extent, he was a type, cared more for conversational than epistolary graces. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Lord Brandolin's epistolary accomplishments do not interest me in the least. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June As diplomas were originally in epistolary form the address was then a necessity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" I find," he replied on February 26, 1730, "you have been a writer of letters almost from your infancy; and, by your own confession, had schemes even then of epistolary fame. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition The last words, it is true, may be considered as little more than a Castilian form of epistolary courtesy. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 Some phases of her were apparent to him in his secluded life that her lover, under the charm of an epistolary devotion, had never seen. Rose MacLeod None of the epistolary writings throw any light on the life, doings, sayings or personality of Jesus. From Bondage to Liberty in Religion A Spiritual Autobiography "It's no use; 'tain't any good," said Si sorrowfully, as he tossed the debris into the fire, after vainly endeavoring to save from the wreck enough to carry, out his epistolary scheme. Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran Roberta helped herself to a book from the shelves and an apple from the table, and the rest settled themselves to their epistolary labors. Betty Wales Freshman The conversational, like the epistolary age, is past; and we have come upon the age of periodical literature. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 What can be said of epistolary writings; their place and usefulness? Bible Studies in the Life of Paul Historical and Constructive This I found to be an even more discouraging business than the epistolary process, as it was bitterly cold and the streets were filled with slush and snow. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself Yet he is doing the heavy epistolary work, being a lawyer; and the correspondence sometimes embracing diverse legal points. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital It must of course be remembered that these "Journal-letters" are by no means Swift's only proofs of his epistolary expertness. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing There is a well-recognised gradation in the methods of epistolary salutation. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects The new edition constituted in effect a nearly complete epistolary autobiography. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) But a series of letters written by one person only is very likely to become monotonous; and more is usually gained than lost by assigning the epistolary role successively to different characters. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews Long may they be a monument of his epistolary administrative ability, and profound statesmanship! A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital But we should not only have failed to appreciate a very remarkable character, but have missed some of the very best of our now existing contributions to epistolary literature. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Miss Dunbar belonged, as I have said, to a type of literary lady now well-nigh passed away, but of which we find frequent trace in the epistolary literature of the last century. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. He did not love writing letters, and will be found somewhere in the following pages referring to himself as one “essentially and originally incapable of the art epistolary.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) His teacher, Mr. Murdoch, furnishes some excellent examples of the stilted epistolary style that was then fashionable. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series I remember your epistolary accounts of Wiesbaden were not very favorable: you did not like its watering-place aspect and fashions; and neither should I, if I was in any way mixed up with them. Records of Later Life Perhaps indeed, after all, the artificial letters may be permitted if only in an "utmost, last, provincial band," to add to the muster of pleasure-giving things which epistolary literature so amply provides. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing B. L. M.—What is the meaning of the abbreviation B. L. M. in Italian epistolary correspondence? Notes and Queries, Number 216, December 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc But even more than her poetry did she pique herself upon her epistolary correspondence. A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen In our day epistolary correspondence has been in great measure destroyed by the penny post and by rapidity of communication. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) There, now, here comes my maid to interrupt me, and there's an end of epistolary correspondence; I must go and dress. Records of Later Life Beneath these epistolary compliments there lies the broad fact that Dongan stood firm by his principle that the extension of French rule to the south of Lake Ontario should not be tolerated. The Fighting Governor A Chronicle of Frontenac It was occupied in writing, in a small epistolary correspondence, in walking about with me to visit different friends, occasionally lounging at coffeehouses and public places, or being visited by a select few. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." But a series of letters written by one person only is very likely to become monotonous; and more is usually gained than lost by assigning the epistolary rôle successively to different characters. A Manual of the Art of Fiction The letter, couched in an epistolary style largely dependent upon underlining, appeared to contain, nevertheless, some matter of moment. Robinetta Richardson also believed that the epistolary method was superior to the narrative because it was essentially dramatic. Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript More probably the hot-headed young disciples to whom he had given oral or epistolary teaching had enthusiastically betrayed him into fame—or infamy. Dreamers of the Ghetto The brief memoir prefaced to one of his works is an epistolary document addressed to a noble Lord. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." The letters are admirable specimens of epistolary composition, considered as the spontaneous expression of a grave, high and warm nature, to the friends of his heart and mind. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 He must have more than a conjuror's hand who can perform any epistolary feat and escape their keen observation.' The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba As to the blockade issue, involving interference with American commerce on the high seas, both sides appeared to epistolarily bolt, and the question remained in suspended animation. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources The author has chosen the epistolary form, as combining ease of style with a certain familiar license of language, and therefore better adapted for popular instruction. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 Opinions being free, epistolary zeal of this kind violated no laws, and words broke no bones. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War When Lady Mary came back to England she took up her residence at Twickenham, and the hitherto epistolary adoration of the poet became a practical fact. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History His epistolary correspondence is a model to all who would attain excellence in the art; and his grasp of thought and practical view of government and science, are unsurpassed by any statesman. From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services Dear Mrs. White: I must lose the gratification of being present at the Woman Suffrage Convention at Concord and substitute an epistolary testimony for a speech from the platform. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The following, and the last, epistolary specimen of the renowned G. Steevens—with which I shall treat my reader—is of a general gossipping black-letter cast; and was written two years before the preceding. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance The essayist himself, in his epistolary address to lord Buckhurst, gives a caution on that point. Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc Her epistolary talent was famous in her generation. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century In the epistolary law of the New Testament the holy kiss is five times commanded. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity These expressions do no violence to her Grace’s epistolary style. Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution By a subtle transition the apothecary-clerk then became the epistolary right-hand of General Brounckers, whose wife, son, and grandson, with P. Blinders, made up his personal staff. The Dop Doctor Besides these, and other genuine letters, she wrote not a few novels, concocted often, if not always, in epistolary form. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century An epistolary discourse, proving, from the Scriptures . . . that the soul is a principle naturally mortal; but immortalized actually by the pleasure of God. The Library of William Congreve This was prettily worded; so what with this, and what with our Mr. Brown's poetry, I gave way; but I reserved to myself the right of an epistolary preface in my own name. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm Her epistolary style undergoes also a marked change, and rises with the loftiness of her part and character. Political Women, Vol. 2 She wrote like him; her epistolary style was his very own, every turn of phrase, every little mannerism. The Martian It opens, and to a large extent continues, with a twist of the old epistolary style which, if nothing else, is ingeniously novel. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Ferdinand, King of Hungary, called him “brother,” and the Emperor Charles the Fifth of Germany styled him “cousin” in the epistolary communications which passed between them. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf Art, in her, wedded to genius, resulted in that incomparable epistolary style which left Balzac and Voiture far away behind her, and which Voltaire himself even has not surpassed. Political Women, Vol. 1 She required that in their epistolary correspondence they should treat each other as equals, under the assumed names of Mrs. Morley and Mrs. Freeman. Political Women, Vol. 2 For a page and a half my pen ran easily enough, and then, for no reason whatever, my epistolary sense faltered, laboured, and ceased to function. Jonah and Co. Of all modes of expression is not the epistolary mode that in which man’s p. 82instinct for using language “to disguise his thought” is most likely to exercise itself? Old Familiar Faces In which, with his permission, I will quit the indirect and return to the epistolary address, as being the more convenient. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing I now insert a couple of reviews, one about Cyclop�dias, one about epistolary collections. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Yorick’s mock-scientific division of travelers seems to have met with especial approval, and evidently became a part of conversational, and epistolary commonplace allusion. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century Mrs. Kemble had certain fixed rules which must have been fatal to the free epistolary spirit. Studies in Literature and History But even at that period it was only a quite exceptional nature like that of Charles Lamb which adequately expressed itself in epistolary form. Old Familiar Faces Were it possible to get Gay or Cowper to write a new set of fables, animals, in the days of postoffices and letters, would become, like the age, epistolary. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. A regard for your happiness, and the security of your posterity, are the only motives that could have induced me to occupy your time by an epistolary exhortation. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America It is a simple narrative of a real journey with description of places and people, frankly personal, almost epistolary in form, without a suggestion of Sterne-like whim or sentiment. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century It is wonderful what the Y. M. C. A. does for us, giving to all who come every kind of information, cashing our checks, supplying pen and ink and paper to the epistolary, and giving minor helps constantly. At Plattsburg He thought Mr. Forman's work admirably done, and as for the letters themselves, he believed they placed Keats indisputably among the highest masters of English epistolary style. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Some are rather dedicated than written to the persons whose names they bear; some are thrown for literary purposes into epistolary form; some again are definitely and personally addressed to friends. Horace It is true that the library of Nineveh, of which Assur-bani-pal was such a munificent patron, has preserved copies of some of the earlier epistolary literature of the country. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs The professor proposed to him an epistolary interchange between them, of which he would make use to keep Pécuchet well up in literature; and, after fresh felicitations, wished him good health. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life For the next two hours the girls wrote busily, forgetting all about the rainy day, and enjoying their epistolary labours to the full. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 Rossetti's letters have, moreover, a value quite apart from the merits of their epistolary style, in so far as they contain almost the only expression extant of his opinions on literary questions. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti The epistolary style is aptly devised; the book will become a pattern for this kind of fiction; it is contrived for readers of all tastes. Samuel Richardson's Introduction to Pamela That the clay tablet should ever have been used for epistolary purposes seems strange to us who are accustomed to paper and envelopes. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs These, again, are but examples from an epistolary swarm. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. They may be approximately classified under history, essays, oratory, fiction, science, philosophy, and epistolary correspondence. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism However, I am told they add nothing to one's idea of his epistolary powers.... Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti In the first place, I generally dislike stories told in epistolary form; in the second, I almost always detest books that their publishers advertise by selected "smart sayings." Punch, or the London Charivari, May 13, 1914 It would have been strange if, after this epistolary exchange, the two men should not have been rather curious about each other's personalities. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Richardson's novels are followed in the epistolary style of narration, which lends itself to the exposition of sentiment. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Pope’s epistolary excellence had an open field; he had no English rival, living or dead. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II It will be seen from the above that Greenough's epistolary style was florid and grandiose in the extreme, but no doubt there was a foundation of sincerity beneath it. American Men of Mind The "Philosophic Letters" purported to be addressed to the author's friend Theriot; but they would seem to be essays in an epistolary form rather than actual correspondence. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure His letters are a perfect model for epistolary writers.... Ten Boys from History Memoirs, maxims, epistolary correspondence, the novel, in their hands took a distinguished place in the hierarchy of literary art. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Pope confesses his early letters to be vitiated with “affectation and ambition:” to know whether he disentangled Himself from these perverters of epistolary integrity, his book and his life must be set in comparison. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II At that day the epistolary art was a finished accomplishment, and in childhood she evidenced a ready use of the quill pen. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 The deftness which characterized Persis in most of her work, did not extend to her epistolary efforts. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Nothing will improve you in epistolary writing as practice. Ten Boys from History The epistolary art, in which the art itself is nature, may be said to have reached perfection, with scarcely an historical development, in the letters of MME. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. The piece addressed to Lambarde is no disagreeable specimen of epistolary poetry; and his ode to the lord Gower was pronounced, by Pope, the next ode in the English language to Dryden’s Cecilia. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Mrs. Clapp's simple epistolary style narrates the facts, and Harte's exquisite style imparts to them the glamour of imagination. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 She herself had long before realized the unadvisability of signing one's name to one's epistolary efforts. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale The familiar epistolary style in which she had begun to record her observations of the French people had been quickly changed for the more formal tone of the “French Revolution.” Mary Wollstonecraft It was to gratify the two great passions of asking and answering, that epistolary correspondence was first invented. The Biglow Papers In their epistolary writing, the Arabs have generally a regular and particular style, beginning and ending all their letters with the name of God, symbolically, because God is the beginning and end of all things. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa The truth is, that my last tedious letter about mining and other tiresome things has completely exhausted my scribbling powers, and from that hour to this the epistolary spirit has never moved me forward. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 This epistolary weight off her conscience, Persis went up-stairs to bed, and for the first time in twenty years, she went without a good night to the photograph in the blue plush frame. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale He says countless things which are the very echo of Sir Walter's epistolary manner. My Contemporaries In Fiction Sanderson was a delightful companion; and as we record this hasty tribute to his memory, we cannot help recalling the many pleasant passages, personal and epistolary, that we have had together. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 My masculine chirography probably looks out of place in this epistolary triumph—ahem!—but you can thank Kitty Clark for it. Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party Except as an instance of our epistolary degeneracy, we could hardly wish it to have a place in Mr. Holcombe's collection, which is otherwise so judiciously made. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Our amorous relations are absolutely reduced to epistolary effusions, and to clandestine meetings, to bring about which we have recourse to all the stratagems employed by separated lovers. French and Oriental Love in a Harem She bethought her of trying to write light descriptive articles, of a kind depending not so much on literary skill as on subject and epistolary freshness of touch. The Daughters of Danaus Pope’s epistolary pranks have, perhaps, done him some injustice. Obiter Dicta Second Series I once had a friend whose writing was so illegible, and the cause of so much worry in mere decipherment, that I was constrained to give up epistolary correspondence with him altogether. Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories We have many examples of this in the poems, and even in the epistolary correspondence of modern writers. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Why, I have been overwhelmed with epistolary reproaches in every variety of feminine hand-writing. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893 One must remember that this is epistolary self-criticism, and that it is hardly to be looked upon in the nature of an ‘advance notice.’ The Bibliotaph and Other People She took the letter and spread it out carefully before her; these epistolary children of hers were tenderly dear to Miss Madigan. The Madigans I think frigebat is epistolary imperfect—"he is in the cold shade," not, "it fell flat." The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order I can answer such, and not without good authority, that in epistolary composition we must not regard Cicero as a model. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 For a good summary of the character of the Assyrian epistolary literature, see Johnston's article in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, xviii. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Still more confidential and epistolary is the humorous and reckless affirmation that St. Ives is ‘a rudderless hulk.’ The Bibliotaph and Other People No relative, therefore, however distant, no acquaintance, however slight, was exempt from this epistolary plague. The Madigans The unpopularity of the epistolary form as a method of authorship is, in fact, due quite as much to a change of taste as to the decay of letter writing. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story I shall be censured for having treated of topics which are not generally considered as proper for epistolary composition. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 I knew they must have smiled at my exuberance of language, for the young enthusiast always luxuriates under epistolary influences. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author This fault is, as we have said, aggravated by the epistolary method. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) A Malthusian consequence of her epistolary fertility, it might be feared, would be the necessary exhaustion of correspondents. The Madigans The evils of the diary and epistolary forms have already been discussed and need no further comment. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story The "Presbytère," a fresh story in the epistolary form, not long after crossed the Jura, and amidst the artificial, heated literature of Paris, appeared as reviving as a bracing morning in the Alps. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 I shall avail myself of your absence," said he, "to pay some of my epistolary debts. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author The epistolary method, though it has its dangers, lends itself well to heighten our interest. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) He knew Biddy had some epistolary commerce with Julia; he had an impression Grace occasionally exchanged letters with Mrs. Gresham. The Tragic Muse Stories written in the epistolary or diary form suffer all the disadvantages of first person narrative; but they are also liable to others, equally serious, which are peculiarly their own. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story About the massive Past Colonel Prowley never ceased to thrust his epistolary tendrils. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Though singularly gifted in the epistolary art, it is but a dull and faint means of expression to the souls of the Wallencampers—and they will not forget. Cape Cod Folks That long series of epistolary correspondence, so enchanting in the original. Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings If a silent, but ultra-fervent benediction can at all profit the person for whom it is intended, very few people have been so well paid for epistolary labor, as was, then, Mr. Fullarton’s correspondent. Sword and Gown A Novel It is therefore necessary that the conflict within Clarissa should hold the centre, and for this the epistolary method does indeed provide. The Craft of Fiction Under his genius the mind of the Roman nation took a sudden spring, and the polite literature of the world was embellished by epistolary composition. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy We have left ourselves no room to say any thing of the epistolary effusions which are prefixed to each of the cantos. Early Reviews of English Poets Perhaps no more finished specimen of epistolary correspondence has ever been penned than those letters, written in the press of multifarious occupations, and often late at night when the rest of the convent was sleeping.’ Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings She took no pains with her letters, and was under no illusion about their epistolary value. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters His letter is interesting, as exhibiting the epistolary style of a popular writer. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century But his musical handwriting appears to have been nearer to Sanskrit than his epistolary, if we may judge by the specimen fac-similes printed in Naumann's "History of Music." Chopin and Other Musical Essays Luckily, in place of the Complete Letter-Writer, he got by mistake a small collection of letters by the most eminent writers, with a few sensible directions for attaining an easy epistolary style. Robert Burns How To Know Him No one before or since ever wrote such wonderfully happy illustrations of the epistolary style of boy or girl, old maid or illiterate man. Studies in Early Victorian Literature It is a matter of common remark that the epistolary art has been killed by the penny post, not to speak of post-cards. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 It was therefore counted a great but natural achievement when the epistolary method of revealing the plot was introduced. Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book If 'Brother Douglass' is as indefatigable in the discharge of his missionary as his epistolary labours, he deserves a crown of numerous converts. Infelice This is of supreme importance in weighing the epistolary evidence for his character and conduct. Robert Burns How To Know Him Under the first impulse of his feelings, he sent an epistolary congratulation and advice to Rienzo and the Roman people. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch Other circumstances may be taken to account for the loose epistolary style or rather no-style now so common; and this refers us to the general question of education—more especially the education of women. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 And personally I find my epistolary faculties collapse at about 100° in the shade. Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years She also attached herself a good deal to Jim, and, although resenting the attentions he bestowed upon the big girl, carefully abstained from porcine epithets, a result of Eugene's epistolary instructions. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life In the countenance of the groom there was a sturdy pride in the epistolary achievement of his wife—a pride which he made a violent but unsuccessful effort to conceal. The Parts Men Play Our poet received from the Tribune an answer to his epistolary oration, telling him that it had been read to the Roman people, and received with applause. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch The classes to whom English literature is indebted for the epistolary samples on which reliance is placed for proof of this proposition, very seldom indeed paid for the conveyance of the letters in question. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 Calendars were exchanged at Christmas, birthdays were recognized with a cold epistolary nod, and occasional calls were paid and invitations issued. Berry And Co. What, also, may we not expect to see done for the extension of epistolary correspondence? Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 It does not appear, however, that epistolary correspondence entered originally into their plan of labor. Companion to the Bible In these old and generous letters, which antedate the railroad and the telegraph, critics have discovered one of the most delicate and informing of the lost arts—the epistolary. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy As has previously been suggested, the epistolary methods of Lady Walderhurst were neither brilliant nor literary, and yet Mrs. Osborn seemed to be pleased by what she read. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" This habit is especially surprising in view of the Ambassador's enormous epistolary output. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II So that, notwithstanding the occasional civilities of their epistolary correspondence, such are often the necessary deceptions of war, that hostilities were, perhaps, all the time, meditating by both parties. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 The writings of the New Testament fall into three main divisions; the historical, the epistolary, and the prophetical, the latter including only the Apocalypse. Companion to the Bible Elegant chirography, and a clear epistolary style, are accomplishments which every educated female should possess. The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies I set out within three or four days for my other home, the distance of which, and its cross mails, are great impediments to epistolary communications. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 If any of them think me worth writing to, they may be assured that in the epistolary account I will keep the debit side against them. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 "So profitable have my epistolary fellow creatures grown to me in these years," notes the historian in his journal, "that when the postman leaves nothing, it may well be felt as an escape." Americans and Others In outward form the Apocalypse is epistolary, being addressed, with the apostolic greeting, to the seven churches of Asia, and containing messages to each. Companion to the Bible Recognising each other as members of the same holy brotherhood, they maintained an epistolary correspondence, in which they treated of all matters pertaining to the common interest. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution The following work was originally written as a series of letters; but the epistolary form has only been partially retained. Town Life in Australia As the great occasion drew nearer, Mr. Tate redoubled his epistolary efforts. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul When the young sculptor had gazed, the old servant nervously undid the roll, and showed within a letter to the commander over Pa-Ramesu, written in the strong epistolary symbols of the royal scribe. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt The same is true of all the epistolary writers of the New Testament, notwithstanding their marked differences of style, and the different aspects also in which they respectively contemplate Christian doctrine and duty. Companion to the Bible Where the books of a division are separated into two groups by a dash, those above the dash are historical, those beneath the dash are biographical, or poetical, or legal, or prophetical, or epistolary. A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible Second Edition In the epistolary preface to Sordello, written thirty years after its first publication, he said: "My stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul: little else is worth study." Browning's Shorter Poems Mr. Tate had earned the position—at least the folks in town thought he had—and demanded him as the man through whom they could accomplish all epistolary effects. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul The greater part of her epistolary correspondence was destroyed by her mother; and what that good and Gothic lady spared, was suppressed by the hereditary austerity of rank, of which her family was too susceptible. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Of the German epistolary literature we have seen nothing which approaches to the excellence of the English school. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Only one of the persons addressed, unluckily, could be elected; but Saunders added their responses to his pile of testimonials, and frequently gave them good epistolary reason to remember his existence and his devotion. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 3, 1892 It was, I believe, while she was upon this visit, that some epistolary communication with Mr. Imlay, induced her resolutely to expel from her mind, all remaining doubt as to the issue of the affair. Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman It was a wonderfully clear bit of epistolary literature. A Man and a Woman Supposing that, by an evil chance, a person finds himself bound to inflict an epistolary rebuff on another, the rebuff entirely fails if a single affected word is inserted. Side Lights These epistolary formulas mean no more than the similar official phrases in English, 'Your most obedient humble servant', and the like. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official In the management of the difficulties of the epistolary form of novel-writing, she surpassed Richardson in verisimilitude and concentration. A History of English Prose Fiction For some time past I have done injustice to many of my friends, in not paying my debts in epistolary correspondence. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. They are always in the pink for epistolary purposes, whatever the strafing or the weather. Out To Win The Story of America in France Beauty of style counts for a great deal; I would not sacrifice the exquisite daintiness of epistolary style in Lamb or Coleridge or Thackeray or Macaulay for gold. Side Lights We imagine that Dermod's style, if he had taken to epistolary correspondence, would have been rather a contrast. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Genuine modesty may sometimes hide the name of an epistolary author or authoress. Around The Tea-Table She laughed merrily over the epistolary deficiencies of her late lord as she spoke, and every one joined her except Mrs. Ketchum, who was too shocked to countenance her. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 The work was of that class of epistolary fiction then in vogue, and the extract singularly well fitted to Ruby's mood. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Suffice it to say that they are among the most delightful epistolary contributions to modern literature, the more so perhaps as they were written without a thought of future publication. The Living Present At all events the Editor of the Times has been giving his correspondents quite enough rope to ensure the proverbial termination of their epistolary existence. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891 We congratulate the country on the revolution in epistolary correspondence. Around The Tea-Table When he had learnt to spell, did he devote his first epistolary efforts to the pompous patronage of his parents? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891 In Goethe’s Romance, Makaria, the central figure for wisdom and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to astronomy and epistolary correspondence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Read aloud a letter just received from Mr. James, which he had been fingering, to show that his informal, epistolary style was identical with that of his recent autobiographical writings, which we had been discussing. Walking-Stick Papers I must thank your unsophisticated brother's pride in his sister's epistolary accomplishments for my privilege of perusal. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 His note, "crying off" till after the schools, had seemed to her not quite as regretful as it might have been; his epistolary style lacked charm. Lady Connie What they need, in order to convert this epistolary brilliancy into literature, is to be thorough. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays His work was primarily a popularization of their ideas, and, in its enthusiastic language, its emphasis on sensibility, and its epistolary form, it seems directed at flattering a female audience. Essays on Taste All the ordinary incidents of an easy life were made the most of; a party was epistolary capital, a race a mine of wealth. The Bed-Book of Happiness Most individuals, when the policy of the library suits them not, exhaust their efforts in an angry kick or an epistolary curse; they never even think of trying to change that policy, even by argument. A Librarian's Open Shelf There was much more of the same sort of high-toned epistolary rhetoric, written and sent by a dear hand, whose fanciful pen seemed touched by the ambrosial tints of Autumn. In the Footprints of the Padres PARIS, 24th May, 18—, Your letter did me good, my dear Edgar, because it came unexpected, from the domain of epistolary consolation. The Cross of Berny These he published as a sensational topical novel in epistolary form, calling it Love and Madness. The Rowley Poems It is beautifully written and in many respects besides its variegated aspect is the most perfect specimen of Field's painstaking epistolary handiwork I know of. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 In the original, the Memoirs are written in a clear vigorous French, and in epistolary form. Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Marguerite de Valois, Madame de Pompadour, and Catherine de Medici The novelist who does not make the reader "wish as there was more on it," according to the philosophic dictum of Sam Weller on the art of epistolary correspondence, has failed. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 1, 1890 Usually the waiting-room is full of wretched men, each an epistolary Tantalus, who, with eyes fixed on the wooden grating, implore the clerk for a post-marked deception. The Cross of Berny Circumstances had never developed epistolary tastes in the sisters, and they were content with brief missives containing general assurances that all was well. A Young Girl's Wooing As usual, Field was unremitting in his epistolary attentions with which I will not weary the reader. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 Those of Cowper have the true epistolary charm. Cowper Using the epistolary form into which he was to throw all his fiction, he produced "Pamela," the first novel of analysis, in contrast with the tale of adventure, of the English tongue. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities I will spare you all the minute details written by faithful servants, who have more sagacity than epistolary style, and give you a synopsis:—Mlle. de Chateaudun left for Rouen a month ago. The Cross of Berny His tricksy fancies peeped out in his correspondence, and several of his old friends in England thought no literary man of his time had a better epistolary style. Yesterdays with Authors The Editor regards this group as the very mainland of the epistolary archipelago that we are exploring. The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 These letters have been chosen as illustrations of Cowper's epistolary style, and for that purpose they have been given entire. Cowper A little later he employed a young New Hampshire graduate of Harvard, Tobias Lear, who graduated in 1783, who served him as secretary until his death, and undoubtedly lightened the epistolary cares of the General. George Washington We have found it a very amusing task collecting together a number of these phrases, and forming them into a connected epistolary composition. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character This is "exclusive news," to be communicated to any friends to whom you may like to intrust it, my dear F. What a capital epistolary pen Dickens held! Yesterdays with Authors The result was a marvellous display of epistolary art. Books and Characters French and English He solicited an epistolary correspondence, at the same time, as an alleviation of the care which that weighty charge would bring on his mind. The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton Lecky was not in England at the time of my visit and I can only claim to have had with him an epistolary acquaintance. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe He had the good fortune to succeed in the epistolary way once before. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 Few letters in the English language are superior to hers, and I think they, will come to be regarded as among the choicest specimens of epistolary literature. Yesterdays with Authors He did not attempt to write one single symmetrical epistolary romance; but the individual letters are usually slight sketches of character carelessly gathered together, and deriving their greatest charm from their apparent spontaneity and artlessness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 The soft grass of epistolary entreaty having failed, Miss P. now proposed to try what virtue there was in the hard stones of the law. Round the Block But rather was he a gentleman, with an immense epistolary acquaintance all over the country, whose main business in life consisted in writing letters to all sorts of persons in a great variety of places. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 It is presumed that what this gentleman says of the difficulties attending a story thus given in the epistolary manner of writing, will not be found to reach the History before us. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 I wish your epistolary propensities were stronger than they are. Yesterdays with Authors I have, moreover, adopted the free and easy style of epistolary composition, endeavoring to make each chapter as much like one of the letters I promised my friends and neighbors at home as practicable. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's Though these epistolary monstrosities were launched, few reached those to whom they were addressed; for my conservator had wisely ordered that my literary output be sent in bulk to him. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Nor are such excessive refinements more agreeable in the epistolary or philosophic style, than in the epic or tragic. The Illustrated London Reading Book Stevenson approached close to the beau ideal of epistolary art. A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 It was not a time for sociability, either personal or epistolary. Balcony Stories As we have few letters, we have likewise few criticisms upon the epistolary style. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Yet here the grandeur of his subject has sometimes clothed his ideas with a language more elevated than is ordinarily to be expected in an epistolary correspondence. The Life of Col. James Gardiner Who Was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745 The man, however, was an admirable stylist, the inventor of a new epistolary manner. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti There were one or two Southern companies that issued insulting defiances, but, after a little expenditure of epistolary valor, prudently, though ingloriously, stayed afar,—as is usual in New Gascony. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 To know whether he disentangles himself from these perverters of epistolary integrity, his book and his life must be set in comparison. Samuel Johnson The qualities of the epistolary style most frequently required, are ease and simplicity, an even flow of unlaboured diction, and an artless arrangement of obvious sentiments. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II His letters are a perfect model for epistolary writers. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. But it may be seriously questioned whether in the aggregate Edison's visitors are less numerous or less time-consuming than his epistolary besiegers. Edison, His Life and Inventions Mr. Micawber's enjoyment of his epistolary powers, in describing this unfortunate state of things, really seemed to outweigh any pain or anxiety that the reality could have caused him. David Copperfield Unpractised in writing, his epistolary compositions were crude in the extreme, being wholly confined to bald statements of fact. The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama I have produced nothing with a sharper epistolary edge to it since I tendered his dismissal in writing to that extremely troublesome person, Mr. Walter Hartright. The Woman in White Nothing will improve you so much in epistolary writing as practice. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. His first thought was of some dark menace from abroad; then he reflected that he did not know her epistolary style, and that it might run to picturesque exaggeration. The Age of Innocence My aunt had written her one of the odd, abrupt notes—very little longer than a Bank note—to which her epistolary efforts were usually limited. David Copperfield He wrote a small neat hand, and epistolary communication was not an insuperable embarrassment to him. Bunner Sisters You can take it for granted from that epistolary effusion that he won't let the grass grow under his feet while coming here. Laddie; a true blue story It seemed to him on the whole that there was no relaxation of Gordon's epistolary tone. Confidence One might expect this epistolary activity to display itself at an even more developed stage in the records of Rabbinical times. The Book of Delight and Other Papers The Bible, which is a collection of ancient literature, historic, prophetic, poetic and epistolary, is valuable as showing the status of woman at the time when the books were written. The Woman's Bible To her alone, in less than three months of this year, he wrote at least thirty-six letters,—considerably over one-third of the entire epistolary produce of the year. The Letters of Robert Burns To his poems and letters is prefixed a very judicious preface upon epistolary composition and amorous poetry. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 The correspondence between Mrs. Robinson and the prince had hitherto been merely epistolary. Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire He had two models; that ancient and simple one of the first Grecian poets, as it is refined by Virgil in the Georgics, and the familiar epistolary way of Horace. Poetical Works of Akenside The following is one of many hundreds of epistolary complaints or invectives, which, during the course of that time, this "much enduring lady" was doomed to read and answer. Tales and Novels — Volume 06 All Lady Delacour's suspicions about Mrs. Stanhope's epistolary counsels and secrets instantly recurred, with almost the force of conviction to her mind. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 |
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