memoirs

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Lizzie, who bought The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg, says it is "very moving" for her book to have an inscription.

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2025

Memoirs like Riva Lehrer’s Golem Girl, about spina bifida, and Jami Lin Nakamura’s The Night Parade, about mental illness, use monsters and monstrosity to discuss disability.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2024

I think of Joris-Karl Huysmans’ “Against Nature,” Russell Greenan’s “It Happened in Boston?” and James Hogg’s “The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner,” not to mention the work of Kafka himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

We see this in "Miss Saigon," "Memoirs of a Geisha" and Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket."

From Salon • Jul. 10, 2023

For a later date the Memoirs of Casanova provide the most striking illustrations.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen