When was Joanna Vassa's father's autobiography published?
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Joanna Vassa Joanna Vassa (1795-1857) was the only surviving child of the former slave and anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano. Her grave has recently been rediscovered in Abney Park Cemetery, London, but little is known of her life.
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Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa ( ), was a prominent African in London, a freed slave who supported the British movement to end the slave trade. His autobiography, published in 1789, helped in the creation of the Slave Trade Act 1807 which ended the African trade for Britain and its colonies.
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Father's Day (novel) Father's Day is a 1971 novel by William Goldman. It is a sequel to "The Thing of It Is..." and revolves around a day in the life of now-divorced Amos McCracken as he looks after his daughter for a day.
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The Real Frank Zappa Book The Real Frank Zappa Book is an autobiography/memoir by Frank Zappa, co-written by Peter Occhiogrosso, and published by Poseidon Press. The text is copyright 1989 Frank Zappa, and copyright 1990 Simon & Schuster, Inc. Since 1999, the book has been published in paperback by Touchstone Books.
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Life of Samuel Johnson The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. The work was a popular and critical success when first published. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English, but some modern critics object that the work cannot be considered a proper biography. While Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763, when Johnson was 54 years old, Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. The biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life, as Boswell makes various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censors many comments. Nonetheless, modern biographers have found Boswell's biography an important source of information on Johnson and his times.
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Eikon Basilike The Eikon Basilike (Greek: Εἰκὼν Βασιλική, the "Royal Portrait"), "The Pourtrature of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings", is a purported spiritual autobiography attributed to King Charles I of England. It was published on 9 February 1649, ten days after the King was beheaded by Parliament in the aftermath of the English Civil War in 1649.
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My Life (Bill Clinton autobiography) My Life is a 2004 autobiography written by former President of the United States Bill Clinton, who left office on January 20, 2001. It was released on June 22, 2004. The book was published by the Knopf Publishing Group and became a bestseller; the book sold in excess of 2,250,000 copies. Clinton had received what was at the time the world's highest book advance fee, $15 million (equivalent to $ million in 2016 ).
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41: A Portrait of My Father 41: A Portrait of My Father is a 2014 book written by George W. Bush for his father George H. W. Bush. The book was released on November 11, 2014. The book was reviewed in "The New York Times", the "Financial Times", "The Wall Street Journal", "The Times", "The Washington Post", etc.
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Dibs in Search of Self Dibs in Search of Self is a book by clinical psychologist and author Virginia Axline published in 1964. The book chronicles a series of play therapy sessions over a period of one year with an emotionally crippled boy (Dibs) who comes from a wealthy and highly educated family. Despite signs that he is gifted, his mother, father, and most of his teachers perceive him as having an emotional or cognitive disorder. Dibs presents abnormal social behavior by continuously isolating himself, rarely speaking, and physically lashing out at those around him. When Axline first meets Dibs's parents, they describe her as their son's last hope. The book details the interactions between Dibs and Axline and utilizes actual session transcripts for dialogue.
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Life of Mr Richard Savage Samuel Johnson's Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744), short title is Life of Savage and full title is An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers, was the first major biography published by Johnson. It was released anonymously in 1744, and detailed the life of Richard Savage, a London poet and friend of Johnson who had died in 1743. The biography contains many details of Savage's account of his own life, including claims that he was the illegitimate child of a noble family that quickly disowned and abandoned him at birth.
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Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy (or Emily Whitfield Croom Bellamy; pen name, Kamba Thorpe; 1837–1900) was an American novelist and essayist, born in Quincy, Florida, 17 April, 1839. She was educated in Springer Institute, New York City. She taught in a female seminary in Eutaw, Alabama, for several years. Bellamy wrote under the pen-name "Kamba Thorpe" (sometimes misspelled, "Kampa Thorpe") "Four Oaks" (New York, 1867), and "Little Joanna" (New York, 1876). Additional works included "Old Man Gilbert" (1888) and the "The Luck of the Pendennings" (1895, Ladies Home Journal). She contributed essays to the "Mobile Sunday Times". Bellamy died in 1900.
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Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson The Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson or the Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life by Hester Thrale, also known as Hester Lynch Piozzi, was first published 26 March 1786. It was based on the various notes and anecdotes of Samuel Johnson that Thrale kept in her "Thraliana". Thrale wrote the work in Italy while she lived there for three years after marrying Gabriel Piozzi.
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Agneta Horn Agneta Horn (August 18, 1629 – March 18, 1672) was a Swedish writer born to noble parents and a military father. She traveled a great deal throughout Europe in her lifetime as a result of living in a military family and later marrying another soldier. She is most known for writing her autobiography, "Agneta Horns leverne" (also spelled "laverne" or "lefverne").
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The Underground Railroad (book) The Underground Railroad Records is an 1872 book by William Still, who is known as the Father of the Underground Railroad. It is subtitled 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; together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders, and most liberal aiders and advisers, of the road.
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Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas ( ; ] ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie ] ; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, "père" ("father"), was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including "The Count of Monte Cristo", "The Three Musketeers", "Twenty Years After", and "". His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, "The Knight of Sainte-Hermine," unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar Claude Schopp who was the leading authority on Dumas and published in 2005, becoming a best seller. It was published in English in 2008 as "The Last Cavalier."
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Memoirs of Hadrian Memoirs of Hadrian (French: Mémoires d'Hadrien ) is a novel by the Belgian-born French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of Roman Emperor Hadrian. First published in France in French in 1951 as "Mémoires d'Hadrien", the book was an immediate success, meeting with enormous critical acclaim. Although the historical Hadrian wrote an autobiography, it has been lost.
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Susy Clemens Olivia Susan "Susy" Clemens (March 19, 1872 – August 18, 1896), was the second child and oldest daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens. She inspired some of her father's works, wrote her own biography of him that Twain later published as part of his autobiography, and acted as a literary critic. Her father was heartbroken when she died of spinal meningitis at age twenty-four.
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My Father's Wives My Father's Wives is a novel by the Angolan author José Eduardo Agualusa published in 2008 by Arcadia Books (London, England). It was translated by Daniel Hahn from Portuguese: "As Mulheres do Meu Pai", published in 2007 by Editora Língua Geral (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Publicações Dom Quixote (Lisbon, Portugal).
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Stefan Maria Kuczyński Stefan Maria Kuczyński, "nom de plume" Włodzimierz Bart (21 September 1904, Bogusław, Wołyń – 30 March 1985, Katowice), was a Polish historian and academic specializing in the medieval history of the Kingdom of Poland during the Piast dynasty and the Jagiellon dynasty, especially in the period of King Władysław II Jagiełło. After World War II he served as docent at the Uniwersytet Jagielloński (1945), then associate professor of Uniwersytet Wrocławski (1946), followed by professor of Uniwersytet Łódzki (1954–1969), and professor of Uniwersytet Śląski (1969–1982). Kuczyński also served as editor-in-chief of illustrated monthly "Śląsk" in 1946–1948, published in Jelenia Góra, and the scientific journal "Nauka i Sztuka", one of the first of its kind in postwar Poland.
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Galeazzo Ciano Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari (] ; 18 March 1903 – 11 January 1944) was Foreign Minister of Fascist Italy from 1936 until 1943 and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law. On 11 January 1944, Count Ciano was shot by firing squad at the behest of his father-in-law, Mussolini, under pressure from Nazi Germany. Ciano wrote and left behind a diary that has been used as a source by several historians, including William Shirer in his "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" and in the 4-hour HBO documentary-drama "Mussolini and I".
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The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley is an unfinished posthumous biography of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley that was written by his friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg. The first two of the four planned volumes were released in 1858 to largely unfavourable reviews. Though a few friends of Percy Shelley enjoyed the book, many critics attacked the book for being poorly edited and for portraying Shelley negatively. Though more volumes were planned, they were never published because of the Shelley family's objections to Hogg's treatment of him.
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Kingdom of Majorca The Kingdom of Majorca (Catalan: "Regne de Mallorca" , ] ; Spanish: "Reino de Mallorca" ; Latin: "Regnum Maioricae" ) was founded by James I of Aragon, also known as "James The Conqueror". After the death of his firstborn son Alfonso, a will was written in 1262 and created the kingdom to cede it to his son James. The disposition was maintained during successive versions of his will and so when James I died in 1276, the Crown of Aragon passed to his eldest son Peter, known as Peter III of Aragon or "Peter the Great". The Kingdom of Majorca passed to James, who reigned under the name of James II of Majorca. After 1279, Peter III of Aragon established that the king of Majorca was a vassal to the king of Aragon. The title continued to be employed by the Aragonese and Spanish monarchs until its dissolution by the 1715 Nueva Planta decrees.