There is an abundance of autobiographical information on Goldoni, most of which comes from the introductions to his plays and from his Memoirs.

The earliest written reference to crochet refers to slip stitch crochet | shepherd's knitting from The Memoirs of a Highland Lady by Elizabeth Grant ( 1797 – 1830 ) in the 19th century.

* The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon ( 1705 )

In 15 – 16th-century French and English depictions of relationships between women ( Lives of Gallant Ladies by Brantôme in 1665, John Cleland's 1749 erotica Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, L ' Espion Anglais by various authors in 1778 ), writers ' attitudes spanned from amused tolerance to arousal, whereupon a male character would participate to complete the act.

** " Excerpt from Memoirs of a Martian Demirep " ( 2007 ).

In his fictionalised but autobiographical Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, published in 1930, Siegfried Sassoon's narrator ruminates from his hospital bed in Denmark Hill, London, in 1917 that " Even the screech and rumble of electric trams was a friendly sound ; trams meant safety ; the troops in the trenches thought about trams with affection.

Memoirs of Lenawee County, Michigan: from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in Lenawee County.

One early story with hints of backwards time travel is Memoirs of the Twentieth Century ( 1733 ) by Samuel Madden, which is mainly a series of letters from British ambassadors in various countries to the British Lord High Treasurer, along with a few replies from the British Foreign Office, all purportedly written in 1997 and 1998 and describing the conditions of that era.

* Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar, Emily Ruete, 1888.

* In John Cleland's Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Fanny goes from poor orphaned country girl to wealthy skilled courtesan eventually finding her one true love and retiring to marriage.

In his 1843 Autobiographical Sketch Wagner acknowledged he had taken the story from Heinrich Heine's retelling of the legend in his 1833 satirical novel The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski ( Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski ).

xiii of the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society and by Edward Ball Knobel in Ulugh Beg's Catalogue of Stars, Revised from all Persian Manuscripts Existing in Great Britain, with a Vocabulary of Persian and Arabic Words ( 1917 ).

Before his execution, Keitel published Mein Leben: Pflichterfüllung bis zum Untergang: Hitlers Feldmarschall und Chef des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht in Selbstzeugnissen, otherwise known in English as In the Service of the Reich, and was later re-edited as The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel by Walter Görlitz from a translation by David Irving as the author in 1965.

in Nollekens and His Times: Comprehending a Life of That Celebrated Sculptor ; and Memoirs of Several Contemporary Artists, from the Time Of Roubiliac, Hogarth, and Reynolds, to that of Fuseli, Flaxman, and Blake.

*" Francisco Zuccarelli, R. A ." in Nollekens and His Times: Comprehending a Life of That Celebrated Sculptor ; and Memoirs of Several Contemporary Artists, from the Time Of Roubiliac, Hogarth, and Reynolds, to that of Fuseli, Flaxman, and Blake.

Nimals of Hindustan monkeys, rodents and the peacock, from Illuminated manuscript Baburnama ( Memoirs of Babur )

According to the Memoirs of Li Zongren, the supervisory unit shot at waves of fleeing Chinese soldiers from behind.

Memoirs are often dictated by its fiercest spirit ; and then histories are composed from memoirs.

Scenes for the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith were filmed in San Marino, as were scenes from many other movies ( including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Holiday, Monster-in-Law, Anger Management, The Wedding Singer, The Wedding Planner, Starsky & Hutch, Intolerable Cruelty, Beverly Hills Ninja, One Hour Photo, Legally Blond, American Wedding, Mystery Men, S1m0ne, Enough, Men in Black II, Charlie's Angels, and The Sweetest Thing ).

* An excerpt from the book Serfdom to Self-Government: Memoirs of a Polish Village Mayor, 1842 – 1927.

In other work, he completed and discussed H. Foster's pendulum experiments, deducing from them an ellipticity for the earth of 1 / 289. 48 ( Memoirs R. Astr.

*** Memoirs and from the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.

The first author to refer to Murad's killer by his full name is Konstantin Mihailović, a Serbian Janissary from the village of Ostrovica, who wrote his Memoirs of a Janissary or Turkish Chronicle in ca 1497.

However, he relates in his Memoirs that a considerable part of his time was spent in reading Greek and Latin comedies.

" Later, retiring to Viareggio to found a school of music, Pacini took time to assess the state of opera in Italy and, during a five-year period during which he stopped composing, laid out his ideas in his Memoirs.

Sherman wrote in his Memoirs that his father named him William Tecumseh ; Sherman was baptized by a Presbyterian minister as an infant and given the name William at that time.

About his time at West Point, Sherman says only the following in his Memoirs:

Evelyn's diaries or Memoirs are largely contemporaneous with those of the other noted diarist of the time, Samuel Pepys, and cast considerable light on the art, culture and politics of the time ( he witnessed the deaths of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, the last Great Plague of London, and the Great Fire of London in 1666 ).

" Long after his death, it was realized that Alexander had produced the Military Memoirs, which sought to be a professional work of military history and analysis, after a long effort of editing a collection of much more personal memoirs that he had starting compiling during his time in Greytown, Nicaragua, at the behest of his family.

In his War Memoirs ( pp1857-66 ) Lloyd George later poured scorn on Wilson for seeking the advice of Haig and Petain in this paper and for not having foreseen the Allied victories of autumn 1918, but neither Lloyd George nor many other people did at the time.

Again a hollow peace was patched up, but it lasted but a short time, and Henri undertook a third war ( 1627 – 1629 ), the first events of which are recounted in his celebrated Memoirs.

The Memoirs, charmingly written, full of anecdote, and containing much interesting material for the history of the time, remain his chief title to remembrance.

Memoirs of Americans including Walter Chrysler and Jack Black speak of what it was like growing up in Western towns where most people had guns and open carry was common ( such as in Kansas and Missouri, which were considered " out West " at the time — now considered the Old West ).

It is to note that Puysegur published his Memoirs in London at the same time as in Paris.

The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith is a 1997 autobiography written by Ian Smith covering his time as Premier of the British Crown Colony of Southern Rhodesia and Prime Minister of Rhodesia ( April 13, 1964-June 1, 1979 ).

Kneale, however, later denied that any of the news stories which The Quatermass Memoirs suggested had inspired parts of his work had ever been in his mind at the time.

In 1818 he published, in four volumes, The Political State of the British Empire, containing a general view of the domestic and foreign possessions of the crown, the laws, commerce, revenue, offices, and other establishments, civil and military ; in 1824, Observations on the Vagrant Act and some other Statutes, and on the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace, in the main a protest against some " nanny state " legislation of the time ; and in 1839 the Memoirs of John Bannister the actor, whom he had known well.

To the first volume of the Memoirs of the Geological Survey ( 1846 ) he contributed a now classic essay, On the Denudation of South Wales and the Adjacent Counties of England, in which he advocated the power of the sea to form great plains of denudation, although at the time he underestimated the influence of subaerial agents in sculpturing the scenery.

The earliest biographers of Aphra Behn not only accepted the novel's narrator's claims as true, but Charles Gildon even invented a romantic liaison between the author and the title character, while the anonymous Memoirs of Aphra Behn, Written by One of the Fair Sex ( both 1698 ) insisted that the author was too young to be romantically available at the time of the novel's events.

The society's Memoirs and Proceedings, first published in 1783, was at the time of its launch the only regular scientific journal in the United Kingdom except for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Felix Kersten is heavily parodied in the Woody Allen book Getting Even, in the chapter entitled " The Schmeed Memoirs ", in which a fictional barber in wartime Germany describes his time as a hair stylist for Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi officers.

Eugenio Ceria, a Salesian commentator on the autobiography of John Bosco, ( Memoirs of the Oratory of Saint Francis de Sales ) notes that by this time, owing to his experience as an educator, John Bosco's ideas on several pedagogical and spiritual principles were well developed and linked and this led him to associate the fulfillment of daily duties with holiness in his advice to Savio.

After 1815 she spent most of her time at Rome amidst artistic society, which she enlivened with her sprightly converse ; a monarchist on her return to Paris during the Restoration, she compiled her spirited but somewhat spiteful Memoirs with the encouragement and supervision of Balzac, her lover since 1828.

His posthumously published Memoirs ( 1930 ) includes a chapter describing his visit to Nepal in 1914, at a time when Europeans were seldom admitted.