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This new selection of the letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle presents a complete view of a remarkable Victorian woman, with a wide circle of friends, who enjoyed the company of distinguished thinkers, writers, politicians, feminists, eccentrics and radicals. This edition draws on many remarkable letters and papers not published before, in which she created a memorable epistolary voice - shrewd, vigorous, ironic, observant, humorous and passionate. Previous selections have often tamely followed the semi-mythical version of her life first given by Carlyle's biographer, James Anthony Froude, showing her as the victimized angel in distress. This new selection gives a rounded picture of her complex character, showing her as a tormented yet forceful woman who was a strong personality in her own right. She now emerges as a self-conscious artist, adept at constructing images of herself that were designed to appeal to her particular correspondents. The account is written with close attention to Jane Carlyle's long-running jealousy of Lady Harriet Ashburton; and fresh letters include many to her mother and her vital response to her passionate lover or admirer Charlotte Cushman. Each letter is a tightly controlled performance, which justifies Thomas Carlyle's belief that her letters equal and surpass whatever of best I know to exist in that kind.

This volume of Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science focuses on the molecular biology of eye disease. - Contributions from leading authorities - Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field

This is an invaluable guide to making the most of helping relationships. It concentrates on the practicalities and explores how to structure the help practitioners give to young people.Including case studies, reflective exercises, and dialogue examples that illustrate the model and use of skills, chapters cover: the context for youth support services and what ‘professional helping'and youth support roles involve the practical development of the helping skills and strategies required by a practitioner concepts from various counselling models that have particular relevance for helping young people and discussing ‘hard to reach'young people the stages of Egan's skilled helper model in some depth, applying it particularly to youth support work. Describing an accessible ‘how-to'approach to engaging with young people, this book will be essential reading to all those working in information, advice, guidance and youth support settings, whether giving first-in-line or intensive support to young people.

This book meets the long-awaited need for a comprehensive overview of the biological role of HDLs. Edited by one of the pioneers in HDL and cholesterol research, this monograph summarizes current knowledge on HDL turnover, regulation and physiology. Clearly structured, the various sections cover HDL structure, formation, secretion and removal, as well as plasma metabolic factors. The biological activities and clinical aspects are equally discussed, as is the impact of HDL on common diseases and their prevention.

This is Volume III of thirty-eight in the General Psychology series. First published in 1922 this study looks at the ‘caveman'aspects of human character, his peculiarities and powers and how an individual can enlist his help for health and efficiency.

Charles Dickens (1812-70), by general consent the most popular novelist ever to have used the English language, has attracted a great deal of critical and biographical writing. Dickens's friend, John Forster, wrote the first notable biography and he relied almost entirely on personal knowledge; Dickens had told him much of his life and had written that he desired ‘no better for my fame than such a biographer and such a critic'. Unfortunately, he destroyed most of the original papers on which his work was directly founded, and this has greatly increased the difficulties of subsequent biographers. Since the Forster biography, there have been numerous memoirs, reminiscences, biographies and critical works, including studies by Bagehot, Gissing and Chesterton. Indeed, as Mr Fielding remarks, ‘more books have been written about Dickens than about any other English novelist'. It has been Mr Fielding's purpose in this essay to provide a guide to the writing that has grown up around him.K. J. Fielding, who was Saintsbury Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, was the author of Charles Dickens, A Critical Introduction, and the editor of the Speeches of Dickens. His essay is a survey and assessment of what has been written about the novelist; and the select bibliography is among the most valuable yet published. Additional Dickens studies in the Writers and Their Work series are Dickens: the Early Novels by Trevor Blount, and Dickens: the Later Novels by Barbara Hardy.