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EARLY MEMORIES, SOME CHAPTERS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY IBD

JOHN BUTLER YEATS
ALPHA EDITIONS
05 / 2021
9789354544484
Inglés

Sinopsis

A quiet, intimate doorway into a life lived in ink and memory. Early Memories opens a window onto a child?s world in late nineteenth?century Ireland, where family life, art, and atmosphere mingle to illuminate a nation?s cultural heartbeat.This vividly crafted autobiographical memoir blends personal recollection with broader historical reminiscences, tracing childhood memories through an artistic upbringing and a household where literature and faith shaped daily life. The book speaks directly to readers of memoirs and to biographers alike, offering a rare, human-scale portrait of a generation and place that influenced Catholic, literary, and cultural history in Ireland. Its lucid, reflective prose invites casual readers to feel the texture of rooms, routines, and riven loyalties, while rewarding scholars with context and nuance that illuminate Victorian era Ireland and the late nineteenth century.John Butler Yeats?s work stands as a touchstone of Irish literary memoirs, a bridge between private memory and public memory. It is a note of cultural history written with warmth and restraint, a testament to how one family?s story can illuminate a nation?s artistic life. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it is restored for today?s and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector?s item and a cultural treasure, inviting both devotion and discovery for memoir readers and serious collectors alike.