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memoirs - events| 52 BC | Roman Empire | The Roman general Julius Caesar writes his De bello gallico/The Gallic War with the intention of winning popular support for himself by publicizing his actions in Gaul. | | 1641 | England | The English diarist John Evelyn (friend and fellow diarist of Samuel Pepys) begins his Diary, which he keeps until his death in 1706. It is not published until 1818. | | 1782 | France | The first part of the Confessions of the French writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau (written 1765–70) are published posthumously. A very frank (and often unreliable) account of his unusual life, it is a masterpiece of autobiography. The last part appears in 1789. | | 1789 | USA | The US writer Benjamin Franklin publishes part of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, a work he began in 1771. The first complete edition appears in 1868. | | 1821 | England | The English writer Thomas De Quincey publishes his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium Eater in the The London Magazine. | | 1848 | France | The French writer François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand, publishes the first part of his autobiographical Mémoires d'outre-tombe/Memoirs from Beyond the Grave. | | 1854 | USA | The US poet and essayist Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden, or Life in the Woods. His best-known work, it records his life in a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in eastern Massachusetts between 1845 and 1847. | | 1902 | | The US writer Helen Keller publishes The Story of My Life, in which she describes how, though deaf and blind since infancy, she was taught to read and write by her companion, Anne Mansfield Sullivan. | | 1956 | England | The English writer Laurie Lee publishes Cider with Rosie, recollections of his childhood in an English village. | | 1958 | France | The French writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir publishes her first volume of autobiography, Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée/Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. | | 1973 | Russia, USSR | The Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes Arkhipelag Gulag/The Gulag Archipelago in Paris, France, a detailed account of the Soviet prison camps. | | 1975 | Italy | The Italian writer Primo Levi publishes his collection of meditations and recollections Il sistema periodico/The Periodic Table. | | 1979 | USA | The US writer Peter Matthiessen publishes The Snow Leopard, describing his travels through Nepal. It is awarded a National Book Award. |
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Amis, Martin Louis
autobiography
Brantôme, Pierre de
Cleland, John
Doolittle, Hilda
Harlan, Josiah
Hemingway, Ernest
Holt, Henry
Kennan, George F
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Moore, Thomas
Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik
Northcote, James
Ritchie, Anne Isabella, Lady
Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine
Seward, Anna
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Stern, Howard
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| We learn this from the memoirs of a man who was concerned in some few of these defeats and in many of these victories. "True, Laurence,'" replied Grandfather, smiling; "we must write a book with some such title as this: MEMOIRS OF MY OWN TIMES, BY GRANDFATHER'S CHAIR. His title, schoolmaster, would very naturally seem derived from the name bestowed upon the harem itself, but some have surmised that the man who first thus entitled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself what sort of a country-schoolmaster that famous Frenchman was in his younger days, and what was the nature of those occult lessons he inculcated into some of his pupils. |