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A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist

A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist

Robertson Davies

We would like to thank our readers, Miranda Davies, Rosamond Bailey, James Neufeld, Judith Skelton Grant and John Grant, and to acknowledge the support and enthusiasm from our publisher, Doug Pepper, and our editor, Jenny Bradshaw, ...
Conversations with Robertson Davies

Conversations with Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies

Ed. Judith Skelton Grant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979. The Rebel Angels. Toronto: Macmillan, 1981. Brothers in the Black Art. Vancouver: Alcuin Society, 1981. Robertson Davies: The Well-Tempered Critic. Ed. Judith Skelton Grant.
A Bibliography of Robertson Davies

A Bibliography of Robertson Davies

Carl Spadoni

Using Davies' archives and the archives of other authors, organizations, and publishers, Carl Spadoni and Judith Skelton Grant present A Bibliography of Robertson Davies to serve the research demands of Canadian literature and book history ...
Robertson Davies, an Annotated Bibliography

Robertson Davies, an Annotated Bibliography

Judith Skelton Grant

Presents information about Canadian author Robertson Davies (1913-1995). Contains a biographical sketch, a selected bibliography, interviews, reviews, photographs, quotations, obituaries, and offers access to a mailing list.
After the Hector: The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and ...

After the Hector: The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and ...

Lucille H. Campey

George Robertson# Jane Robertson# James Robertson# Anne Robertson# Charles Robertson# John Robertson# Edward Robertson Margaret Robertson Mary Robertson Peter Robertson Barbara Robertson George Robertson Walter ...
Robertson Davies: man of myth

Robertson Davies: man of myth

Judith Skelton Grant

Drawing on interviews with the Canadian novelist himself and an unprecedented access to his notebooks and family papers, a detailed biography traces the evolution of Davies's work and the relationship between his life and his fiction.
Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties

Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties

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For example, Patricia Morley overstates the case when she argues that the narratives are “united by a religious myth of achieved freedom and spiritual growth.” Such a confident assertion that Davies' protagonists achieve liberty neglects a ...
Academical Lectures and Pulpit Discourses

Academical Lectures and Pulpit Discourses

Robert Balmer

Robertson, Rev. G., Busby, large paper. Robertson, Mr George, Boghole. Robertson, Rev. James, Edin. Robertson, Rev. J., Musselburgh. Robertson, Mr J. H., Liverpool. Robertson, Mr John, GrcenhiU, 2 copies. Robertson, Mr John, Kirkwall.
Entre vous et moi: lettres, 1976-1995

Entre vous et moi: lettres, 1976-1995

Robertson Davies

Les amateurs - et ils sont nombreux - des romans de ce remarquable romancier canadien-anglais se réjouiront d'avoir entre les mains ce choix de lettres qui couvre la deuxième partie de la carrière littéraire de Davies, depuis la ...
Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the ...

Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the ...

Davies Owen

3 For a thorough account of cunning-folk in this period see Owen Davies, Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History (London, 2003); Owen Davies, Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951 (Manchester, 1999), pp. 214–29; Owen Davies, ...
Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic

Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic

Val Ross

Yet all of them, through the magic of Val Ross’s art, help to create an intriguing, full-colour portrait of a complex man beloved by millions of readers around the world. From the Hardcover edition.
Globalization in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences

Globalization in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences

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Impacts and Consequences Gloria Davies, Chris Nyland. Contributors. John Rallingall: New Zealand Institute of Economic ... Gloria Davies: School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Monash University gloria. davies ...
Recollections of the Rev. Griffith Davies Owen, of ...

Recollections of the Rev. Griffith Davies Owen, of ...

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CHAPTER I. MR. OWEN'S EARLY HISTORY. THE REv. GRIFFITH DAVIES Owen was the second surviving son of the late Thomas and Benedicta Davies Owen, and born on Sunday the 24th day of January, 1790, at Llanrwst, in Denbighshire.
Modelling Critical and Catastrophic Phenomena in Geoscience: ...

Modelling Critical and Catastrophic Phenomena in Geoscience: ...

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M. Sahimi, M.C. Robertson, and C.G. Sammis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 2186 (1993). 15. H. Nakanishi, M. Sahimi, M.C. Robertson, C.G. Sammis, and D. Rintoul, J. Phys. I. France 3, 733 (1992). 16. M.C. Robertson, C.G. Sammis, M. Sahimi and A.J. ...
Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else

Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else

Thomas M. Kitts

Based on interviews with his closest associates, as well as studies of the recordings themselves, this book creates the most thorough picture of Davies’ work to date.
The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: ...

The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: ...

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Davies, Owen. A People Bewitched: Witchcraft and Magic in NineteenthCentury Somerset. Bruton, 1999. Davies,Owen. Witchcraft, Magicand Culture, 1736–1951 . Manchester: ManchesterUniversity Press, 1999. Davies, Owen. CunningFolk: ...
Douglas Gibson Unedited: On Editing Robertson Davies, Alice ...

Douglas Gibson Unedited: On Editing Robertson Davies, Alice ...

Douglas Gibson

you: John Sawatsky, Andy Russell, Barry Broadfoot, Myrna Kostash, Harold Horwood, Don Starkell (author of the classic Paddle to the Amazon/ James Houston (Memoirs of an Igloo Dweller, and other titles) and Peter Gzowski (The Private ...
Puckstruck: Distracted, Delighted and Distressed by Canada's ...

Puckstruck: Distracted, Delighted and Distressed by Canada's ...

Stephen Smith

... 397 Davidson, Scotty, 267 Davies, Robertson, 49 Davis, Andrew McFarland, 238 Day, Hap, 158, 205–6, 234 Death ofHockey, The (Kidd, Macfarlane), 23, 152 Death ofHockey, The (Klein, Reif), 24 deaths, 288–9, 387–93. See also medical ...
Across Canada by Story: A Coast-to-Coast Literary Adventure

Across Canada by Story: A Coast-to-Coast Literary Adventure

Douglas Gibson

Now in Across Canada by Story, Gibson brings new stories about Robertson Davies, Jack Hodgins, W.O. Mitchell, Alistair MacLeod, and Alice Munro, and adds lively portraits of Al Purdy, Marshall McLuhan, Margaret Laurence, Guy Vanderhaeghe, ...
Det gode brød - opskrifter fra Tartine Bakery

Det gode brød - opskrifter fra Tartine Bakery

Chad Robertson

Forfatter: Chad Robertson Oversætter: Ulla Oxvig Forlagsredaktør: Stig Nielsen Fotos: Eric Wolfinger samt Chad Robertson (s. 20,79, 115, 137, 139, 178, 211, 217,217, 239 og 253) og Catherine Karnow (s. 28) Tegninger: David Wilson Émile ...
Robertson Davies, Playwright: A Search for the Self on the ...

Robertson Davies, Playwright: A Search for the Self on the ...

Susan Stone-Blackburn

Judith Skelton Grant to Stone-Blackburn, 16 April 1984. Graham Mclnnes, “An Editor from Skunk's Misery Is Winning Fame for Peterboro,” Saturday Night (26 April 1947), p. 15. Judith Roberts-Moore, Archivist, Public Archives of Canada, ...
Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature

Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature

Nick Davies

How do they get away with it? In this enormously engaging book, naturalist and scientist Nick Davies reveals how cuckoos trick their hosts.
Americana: The Kinks, the Road and the Perfect Riff

Americana: The Kinks, the Road and the Perfect Riff

Ray Davies

The book is interspersed with lyrics and also includes photographs from Davies's own collection and the Kinks’ archive.
Teenage Revolution

Teenage Revolution

Alan Davies

When Alan Davies was growing up he seemed to drive his family mad.
Well-being: Productivity and Happiness at Work

Well-being: Productivity and Happiness at Work

I. Robertson

WELL-BEING Productivity and Happiness at Work Ivan Robertson Director, Robertson Cooper Professor of Organizational Psychology, Leeds University Business School and Cary Cooper Distinguished Professor of Organizational ...
Creating a Resilient Workforce: Health and Wellbeing for a ...

Creating a Resilient Workforce: Health and Wellbeing for a ...

Ivan Robertson

Based on the consulting experience of experts in the field and established authors, Cooper and Robertson, including recent case studies of their clients.
Morkan's Quarry: A Novel

Morkan's Quarry: A Novel

Steve Yates

Kreft insisted this was enemy territory, very much the haunt of Sam Davies, the man they were after. A pack of fool targets around a fire was what made filth like Davies trouble for the Union. “These very houses right here belonged to families  ...
Camden Market

Camden Market

Caitlin Davies

Struggling stallholders have built up fashion empires. Caitlin Davies tells all these stories and more in an illustrated history full of personal memories and previously unpublished archive images.

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