Forebears, by John Needham

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When Jay Harding is given his beloved grandmother June’s diary after her death he discovers a fascinating picture depicting one Englishwoman’s life from childhood during the dark times of wartime Britain up to the present day. But he’s already learned more distant family history. Prior to her passing his gran had told him the story of her own forebears, some of it tragic, beginning in the early optimistic years of the twentieth century, before the world was torn apart by the cataclysm of the first terrible ‘war to end all wars.’ That account gave testimony to happiness but also shocking abuse, institutional cruelty and tragedy. Jay has witnessed the rich tapestry of his family history; has glimpsed his ancestors in handwritten pages yellowed with age, in sepia and black-and-white pictures dulled by time, in a poignant remembrance of stolen love in a silver frame; has heard it told first-hand in his grandmother’s voice, tremulous in her decline Now in possession of the diary too, he reads on . . . In discovering the story of his forebears, Jay finds vibrant echoes of the past resonating with his love-blessed present, inspiring him to meet the future. Told in alternating diary extracts and narrative (a surprise about the identity of the narrator is revealed at the end), several themes run in parallel through this rich, impeccably researched novel: the repercussions of sexual abuse, the continuum of female sexual reproduction, the woman’s view of fighting wars and running the world and the changing social mores throughout the twentieth century. It is a compelling social and family history typical of so many families of the last one-hundred-and-five years. ‘Intricate and beautiful’. Gwendlyn Kallie ‘Compassionate, so very real’. Marilyn Z. Tomlins ‘A tour de force’. Anthony Nobbs

Forebears, by John Needham

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• Published on: 2015-09-23
• Released on: 2015-09-23
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Beautiful & Touching Multi-Generational Novel By robsrose This author’s second book begins during the present day and then whisks you back in time to span most of the twentieth century, beginning in 1906 with a melodramatic event that has sometimes profound repercussions, to bring you back to the present. Taking the character of grandmother June as a pivot, Forebears is the story of Jay Harding’s ancestors and their lives as seen through the eyes of the women in his female line. I liked the way the book interweaves the diary of June with a narrative telling a powerful family story. This beautiful, intricate and well written saga details everyday family life and what it was like living with the effects of war emotionally, physically and economically on those at home and those on the front line. It gives insight into the poverty of the Depression-stricken 1930s for ordinary people. It tells of a baby who by sheer good luck survives a World War II V2 rocket attack. It chronicles the optimism of the New Elizabethan Age. Mostly though, it’s the story of the women of each generation of this family, of their courage, endurance and ability to just get on with things, because that’s what women do. So this is a testament to the womenfolk (for reasons revealed near the end) of an unremarkable family living through remarkable events, partly told through June’s diary and partly through the words of a surprising narrator whose identity is revealed at the conclusion. I won’t it spoil by saying whom! It’s a plea, if you like, for writing things down; for recording your life for posterity. Although fictional, Forebears is a story about us all, really. About how we are all bound to those from our past and how the choices our ancestors made influence our lives today. It is a wonderful familial and generational picture of happiness, joy, sorrow and tears, but most of all perseverance that allowed Jay’s forebears to survive, flourish, and continue their bloodline. This is a wonderful story to read again and again. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A fascinating story. By Susan Keefe This story starts with Jay, standing in the church at the funeral of his Grandmother, June. After the wake, his Granddad offers him the opportunity to read his Grandmother’s diaries, which she has kept since she was a child.That night, Jay and his partner Helen snuggle up together and open one of the journals....As they begin turning the pages, they find themselves drawn back through the years to June’s childhood. But then another, parallel narrative appears: we are taken back two more generations to begin with June's own grandmother.The story spans 105 years, and follows generations of the same family, down the female line, starting with Juniper, an attractive young woman who becomes a Governess in 1906. Her life, like so many others was moulded by circumstances beyond her control. When World War 1 started, everyone, including her boyfriend was sure it would be over by Christmas, but unfortunately, as we know it was not, and our glimpse into her life gives a wonderful insight into what living before, during and after the First World War was really like.As the story progresses, I found it fascinating to read about the changes in attitudes, fashions and morals throughout the 20th and into the 21st Century.At the end there is the opportunity to sample the authors debut novel ‘Convergence’, which is about Martin, one of the characters in this book.This, in my opinion would make a good book for students of Modern History to read, or anyone interested in family life in the 20th and 21st Century. Within its pages you will find it all, love, life, birth death, the full gamut of emotions. At the very end there is a satisfying, surprise plot twist.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. More of the same please! By Jack H. I bought this book because I previously read Mr. Needham’s book “The One Of Us,” which I enjoyed immensely. If anything, I enjoyed “Forebears” even more!The book is a beautiful , sweeping family saga in which a young couple uncover their family history from the beginning of the 20th century up to the present day.Swapping between present and past, the author introduces a wonderful cavalcade of characters. Their life stories are contextualised side-by-side with real historical events. As with “The One Of Us” the historical detail is wonderful and well-researched adding to the story’s interest and believability and whilst all the characters may not be sympathetic (which is fine by me, not everyone you meet in life is “sympathetic” after all!) they are believable and interesting in a way that makes you determined to carry on reading so that you know what happens to them. Indeed, the author is somebody that obviously has a real feel for the way people think and operate and has the rare ability to transcribe that accurately to paper.A fascinating, extremely well-written and absorbing page-turner. Congratulations to the author and more of the same please!

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The Story of Inyo (Classic Reprint), by W. A. Chalfant

The Story of Inyo (Classic Reprint), by W. A. Chalfant

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Excerpt from The Story of InyoCalifornia has furnished probably more themes for books than has any other American State. The easy-going romantic years of Mexican rule, the padres, the Argonauts, the golden era, the wonders of this Empire of the West, have had generous attention from both masters and amateurs in prose and poetry, fact and fiction. The flood of writing hardly diminishes, for magazine literature and still more books add to it month by month. Yet few of the writers on California subjects look outside of the boundaries coined by a phrase-making politician, "from Siskiyou to San Diego, from the Sierras to the sea." Even such historians as Bancroft and Hittell deemed it hardly worth their while to inquire into the annals of the borderlands, though the wilds were conquered through many hardships and wars bloodier than some on which volumes have been written.Those who ventured into the unknown regions seldom thought it worth while to set down for the future any extended record of their trials and achievements. While they lived history, it all came to them as part of the day's work.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Story of Inyo (Classic Reprint), by W. A. Chalfant

• Amazon Sales Rank: #760441 in Books
• Published on: 2015-09-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .78" w x 5.98" l, 1.11 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 378 pages

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful. If you love the Owens Valley, this book is for you. By A Customer The Story of Inyo presents a comprehensive view of the history and geology of the Owens Valley, beginning with its first inhabitants, and extending through the conflict with the City of Los Angeles.What makes the book special is that it presents it from the perspective of one of the prominent citizens of the Valley during its formative years, newspaperman and author W.A. Chalfant. When you pick up this book, not only do you get some very insteresting facts about the Owens Valley, you also get to read them in a writing style that was prevalent at the time that the history was being made. It's like reading about history and stepping back into it at the same time.The Story of Inyo should be perhaps the first choice for anyone interested in the history or geology of the Owens Valley.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. W.A. Chalfant and The Story of Inyo By Burton Falk In 1887, nineteen year-old W.A. (Bill) Chalfant took over active editorship of the Inyo Register, published in Bishop, CA, and continued to serve in that capacity until a year before his death in 1943 During his long career with the Register, Bill Chalfant became a staunch advocate for Owens Valley residents, especially in regard to the acquisition of local water rights by Los Angeles interests during the early years of the 1900s. When firebrands began dynamiting the resulting aqueduct, however, Chalfant opposed their action and subsequently was threatened to be run out of town. Later he served on the Inyo Associates Committee, a group formed to repair relations with the City of Los Angeles, and, partially through his counsel and sense of justice, he lived to see town properties resold to local residents, thereby returning many acres of Owens Valley land to production. John B. Long, manager of the California Newspaper Publishers Association, said, "Angels Camp had its Mark Twain, the Valley of the Moon its Jack London, San Francisco its Bret Harte, and Owens Valley its Bill Chalfant." Which begs the question, "Who better than Bill Chalfant to write a history of Inyo County?" First published in 1922, The Story of Inyo contains a wealth of information on its namesake County, including, but not limited to: the geology of the area (now somewhat dated), a brief history of the county's first inhabitants (the Paiutes and Shoshones), notes on its earliest explorers (Jedediah Smith, Joe Walker, John C. Fremont), the ordeal of the emigrants who came through Death Valley in 1849, the first attempts to organize a new county (Inyo County was originally part of Tulare County), early mining claims (Coso and Argus in 1860; Slate Range in 1861), the arrival of the first cattle (1861), the Indian Wars (1861-1867, during which 60 whites and some 200 Indians died.), the development of the Cerro Gordo mines (beginning in 1865), the eventual establishment of Inyo County (1866), the Great Earthquake(1872), the opening of the Panamint mines (1873), the discovery of borax in Death Valley (1880), and, last but not least, the development of the Owens Valley as an agricultural area. Updating The Story of Inyo in 1933, Chalfant took aim at the Southern California interests which had acquired most of the water rights in the Owens River drainage, thus severely limiting the area of its agricultural promise. Starting with Chapter XXXIV, "The Betrayal of Owens Valley," and including six additional chapters with foreboding titles such as: "The Coils Tighten," "Unceasing Menace," and "City Lawlessness Emulated," the author provided a detailed--if somewhat mind-numbing--explanation of how the Owens Valley lost its birthright.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Part of my past By Donald L. Schultz, Jr. I worked in Bishop, CA for almost three years starting in 1954 right out of college. A few of my fellow workers for the California Division of Highways actually lived through the time of the construction of the aqueduct to transport Owens river water to Los Angeles and experienced first hand the animosity between the Inyo county residents and the city of L.A. Hence, my interest in the subject. The Chalfant Press was still publishing the Bishop, CA newspaper at that time.

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Milton and the English Revolution, by Christopher Hill

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In this remarkable book Christopher Hill used the learning gathered in a lifetime’s study of seventeenth-century England to carry out a major reassessment of Milton as man, politician, poet, and above all, religious thinker. The result is a Milton very different from most popular imaginings: instead of a gloomy, sexless ‘Puritan’, we have a dashingly original thinker, sympathetic to polygamy, even branded with the contemporary reputation of a libertine. More importantly, Christopher Hill’s Milton is very different from the writer portrayed in most previous academic studies. To him, Milton is an author who found his real stimulus less in the literature of classical and times and more in the political and religious radicalism of his own day. Hill demonstrates, with originality, learning and insight, how Milton’s political and religious predicament is reflected in his classic poetry, particularly ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Samson Agonistes’. ‘A remarkable work of scholarship, full of fascinating matter and stimulating ideas.’ Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times ‘Few have Christopher Hill’s command of the literature, and fewer still his awareness of the nuaices of seventeenth-century thought and style...Christopher Hill has much of Milton’s learning and more than a little of his commitment. The combination is exhilarating.’ – The Economist ‘Christopher Hill has made an indispensable contribution, not just to Milton or seventeenth-century studies, but to cultural studies as a whole.’ Raymond Williams, Guardian ‘A living, marvellous, readable piece of history...An epoch-making specialist study of the source of many of Milton’s ideas.’ Irish Times Christopher Hill (1912-2003) was a university lecturer in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century history, and from 1965 to 1978 he was Master of Balliol College. His many books and textbooks include ‘The English Bible and the Seventeenth Century Revolution’ and ‘Liberty Against the Law’. Endeavour Press is the UK’s leading independent publisher of digital books.

Milton and the English Revolution, by Christopher Hill

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• Published on: 2015-09-02
• Released on: 2015-09-02
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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful. 400th Anniversary Birthday Greetings- John Milton, Revolutionary and Poet By Alfred Johnson The name and work of the late British Marxist historian Christopher Hill should be fairly well known to readers of this space who follow my reviews on the subject of the 17th century English Revolution. That revolution has legitimately been described as the first one of the modern era and had profound repercussions, especially on the American Revolution and later events on this continent. Although Hill was an ardent Stalinist, seemingly to the end of his life, his works, since they were not as subjected to the conforming pressures of the Soviet political line that he adhered to, are less influenced by that distorting pressure. To our benefit.More importantly, along the way Professor Hill almost single-handedly brought to life the under- classes that formed the backbone of the plebeian efforts during that revolution. We would, surely, know far less about Fifth Monarchists, Brownists, Ranters, panters, Shakers, Quakers and fakers without the sharp eye of the good professor. All to the tune of, and in the spirit of that famous last line from John Milton's "Paradise Lost" about the locus of paradise, except instead of trying to explain the ways of god to man the professor has tried to explain ways of our earlier plebeian brothers and sisters to us.That said, on this the 400th Anniversary year of the birth of John Milton the great English revolutionary and poet it is fitting that the occasion be commemorated by a review of one of Professor Hill's major literary/historical works, "Milton and The English Revolution". Now with a figure like Milton, so central to the Western literary canon, it is, after 400 years of critique, entirely possible to analysis his life and work from a merely literary or religious point of view and "deep-six" his central role as a propagandist for Cromwell's republican English Commonwealth, as a defender of regicide in "The Tenure Of Kings and Magistrates" or as a man emerged in the various radical religious and political controversies of his day. The literary and political fight against such reductionism is, in fact, both the purpose of Hill's book and his core argument in order to take back the person of John Milton for the revolution. And along the way dispel the proposition that Milton was a cloistered "up-tight" Puritan exemplar, especially through his analysis of Milton's tracts on divorce and an examination of his career during the tumultuously 1640's. To this reviewer's mind Hill succeeds in the first task although I still have reservations in imagining the figure of a `rakish' John Milton on the second.As always in dealing with the controversies of the mid-17th in England it is best to have knowledge of the various religious controversies that were swirling through all classes as the showdown with the king, and more importantly, the theory of 'divine right' of kings and the heavy monarchical/church state apparatus based on it. Hill's main argument on this point is that Milton's known theological divergences from then orthodox Laudian Church of England dogma or, for that matter; orthodox Puritan dogma as well made him a prime candidate to be the leading propagandist for the republican side in the dispute.Thus, Milton intellectually was totally emerged in the on-going controversies over mortalism, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the literalness (and timing) of the Second Coming, the virgin birth, arminianism, Arianism and the thousand and one varieties on this theme that had more than one champion in its day. As Hill notes these controversies may seem rather abstract or of merely academic interest today but then one could pay with his or her life for a wrong move. Most famously, look at the fate of Quaker James Nayler, for one, for the truth of that matter-and remember that man drew a severe sentence for his `folly' during the fairly "enlightened" Cromwellian Protectorate.If one recognizes, as I following Professor Hill do, the politically shrewd aspect of Milton's career as well as that of his role as thoughtful if somewhat arbitrary advocate for various political causes that were dear to his heart then his role as propagandist for the Republic is easier to understand. As Secretary of Foreign Tongues he was the voice of the English Revolution to the known world. In that capacity, rather than that of a 'private intellectual' the reading of such treatises as his defense of regicide "Tenure of Kings And Magistrates" and his rebuttal to Charles I in "Eikonoklastes" makes more sense.At one time I placed Milton as something of the 17th century equivalent of the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in the 20th century who, according to no less an authority than George Bernard Shaw, was the "prince of pamphleteers" of his era. I now believe this earlier characterization of mine made Milton more organizationally and theoretically committed to the fate of the revolution, as he suffered later disillusions with the revolution under the Commonwealth, than he actually was. However, among the literary set of the English Revolution, his is the most outstanding voice trying to push the revolution, the "revolution of the saints" to put it in the parlance of the day, to the left. All the way to 1660 and beyond, despite his physical blindness. And then in defeat to explain what went wrong, as well.Although Hill has drawn in this little political biography a portrait of Milton as a man enmeshed in his times his seminal poetic and other literary work after his narrow escape from the clutches of a vengeful Charles II in 1660- the trilogy, "Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained" and "Samson Agonistes" are also well analyzed. I do not, however, want to enter into that post-revolutionary literary/political discussion which takes up the last part of the book here, interesting as it is. As mentioned above more than enough ink has been spilled over the last four hundred years deciphering the meanings of those works by the literary set. The reader can read this section and make up his or her mind without my layman's literary comments. To conclude then, this book pays due homage to the prime literary defender of the "Good Old Cause", a cause that WAS worth fighting for. All Honor To The Memory Of John Milton, Revolutionary And Poet.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Great book By Kindle Customer Great pleasure to be in the presence of a good mind wrestling with a great subject. Has inspired me to read Milton, the de doctrina, that I would never have otherwise considered.That said, the blurbs that suggest that Hill was an unrepentant Stalinist are belied by comments that make it clear that he sees the murderous nature of Stalinist totalitarianism (not that this is a great achievement). On the other hand, he has some issues with Milton's theology that I think are not consistent with the De Doctrina, and seem to be representative of what he wishes Milton would be rather than what he was.Still, a great achievement and a wonderful window into this particular 17th century giant's world and work.

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