![]() I would sit on its cockle-plastered edge and wait for the water to lap at my feet, fling my fishing rod, which was made from tree branch, string, and a cork from one of my father’s discarded wine bottles. The late afternoons, after homework, I spent on our jetty, a short wooden promenade I could walk in three steps, if I took long enough strides to strain the muscles between my thighs. ![]() The early afternoons were for eat and sleep breaks: eat a heavy lunch, sleep like a drunk. Hot, hot were the days as I remember them, with runny-egg sunshine and brief breezes. I played, carelessly, on the West side because the East side bordered the mangroves of Ikoyi Park and I’d once seen a water snake slither past. Our yard stretched over an acre and was surrounded by a high wooden fence that could drive splinters into careless fingers. My worst was to hear my mother’s shout from her kitchen window: ‘Enitan, come and help in here.’ ![]() At an age when other Nigerian girls were masters at ten-ten, the game in which we stamped our feet in rhythm and tried to outwit partners with sudden knee jerks, my favorite moments were spent sitting on a jetty pretending to fish. From the beginning I believed whatever I was told, downright lies even, about how best to behave, although I had my own inclinations. ![]()
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![]() Happily for the family finances – never flourishing – Orwell was a studious child. The Thames Valley locales in which the family settled provided the background to his novel Coming Up For Air (1939). ![]() Like many a child of the Raj, Orwell was swiftly returned to England and brought up almost exclusively by his mother. In fact the Blairs were remote descendants of the Fane Earls of Westmoreland. GEORGE ORWELL, the pen-name of Eric Arthur Blair, was born on 25 June 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, where his father, Richard Walmesley Blair, was working as an Opium Agent in the Indian Civil Service, into what – with the uncanny precision he brought to all social judgments – he described as ‘the lower-upper-middle classes’. You can find more work about Orwell in our library. Taylor is a Trustee of The Orwell Foundation. ![]() His Biography of Orwell, Orwell: the Life won the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award. Taylor is an author, journalist and critic. The following biography was written by D.J. George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, and critic most famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949). ![]() ![]() ![]() This means no posting, linking, or recommending your own content, or any content produced by a person or company you're affiliated with. This includes, but is not limited to, hate speech and fighting about politics. All mod actions will be taken with these goals in mind. ![]() Our guidelines were designed to foster a diverse and welcoming discussion community while avoiding drama, flamewars, and promotional activity. Say "hi" at our sister subreddits- SpecArt and SF Videos-and join our reader-managed Goodreads group. The key is that it be speculative, not that it fit some arbitrary genre guidelines. History, Postmodern Lit., and more are all welcome here. Not sure what counts as speculative fiction? Then post it! 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Midwives approach birth as a normal, natural, healthy life event. Our Midwives can be found in a private hospital-based practice. Georgia mandates private insurance and Medicaid reimbursement for nurse-midwifery services. Certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) are registered nurses who have completed graduate-level training in midwifery and have passed a national certification exam. The focus is on prevention,education,& compassionate family centered care. Midwifery is based on a philosopy of care that is centuries old. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you look at the recovery memoirs of today, they come out of seventeenth-century spiritual conversion narratives. ![]() Why did you spend so much time on religious books? There wasn’t a bookstore with a novel section and a memoir section. ![]() Robinson Crusoe and other Defoe novels were in the form of autobiographies, but no one knew what they were. There are a number of cases back through the early nineteenth century, and in the twenties there was a series of scandals. Human nature is such that sometimes people will lie to get the result they want. Well, it certainly doesn’t seem so shocking after reading your book. Geoff Kloske had the notion, while he was observing reactions to James Frey - and I agreed with him - that something was missing in the equation, that it’s more complicated than just “why can’t it be fact-checked and it’s terrible.” Of course you deal with Frey (unsparingly) in the book. We couldn’t help but notice your editor also published James Frey’s second memoir. Yagoda explained to us the extent to which we’ve been there and done that. And nearly every mortal sin that’s afflicted the genre - lies, oversharing, score-settling, pandering - has been condemned as a sign of the apocalypse ever since the days of St. As documented in Ben Yagoda’s perceptive, thorough, and amusing Memoir: A History, memoir-writing is very nearly the world’s oldest profession (way older than fiction). Sarah Palin’s crash-memoir, Going Rogue, which arrived in stores today, may be the least mavericky thing she’s ever done. ![]() ![]() ![]() If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courts-until a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world.įour queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. 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Thorough biography of this remarkable character, historian Elliott Gorn In Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America, the first In a country premised on the inalienable right to reinvent yourself, hers was one of the most remarkable acts of "children," and started calling herself Mother Jones. Stillĭressed in the black frock of mourning, now graced with gray hair, sheĪdded a few years to her age, referred to striking workers as her Into one of the most compelling figures in American history. By the end of the century, she had transformed herself That summer,Įverything changed when her husband and all of her children died in aĭevastating yellow fever epidemic. In a rundown Irish Catholic neighborhood in Memphis. Thirty-year-old former schoolteacher, married with four children, living She was an unlikely candidate to become America's most famous Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America by Elliott J. 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