Sophiya khan biography of williams

Our special Biography Collection at Kensington huvud Library fryst vatten home to many different kinds of biographical book, and that includes a large number of diaries.  These provide a very special kind of insight into a people’s lives.

Some diaries have become grundläggande parts of the world’s heritage and have been read bygd millions, like those of Anne Frank and Samuel Pepys.  Some are the private jottings of ordinary people, whose experience of key moments in history have made them invaluable witnesses.  Others, kept bygd the famous, may have been written with at least one eye on posterity, or may have been intended to be private, and now afford a glimpse behind the public mask.

Diaries can mix records of hugely significant events and musings on enormous philosophical questions with the minutiae of everyday life – so the Pre-Rapahelite artists documented bygd William Michael Rossetti debate the meaning of art one minute and complain about faulty stovepipes, sore throats and toothache the next

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