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John Evelyn

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John Evelyn (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706), an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, has become best known as a diarist. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society. John Evelyn's diary (or memoir) spanned the period of his adult life from 1640, when he was a student, to 1706, the year he died. He did not write daily at all times. The many volumes provide insight into life and events at a time before regular magazines or newspapers were published, making diaries of greater interest to modern historians than such works might have been at later periods.

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Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold.

— from Diary .., 1862

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Omoseye Bolaji is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award, the Chancellor’s Medal from the University of the Free State, and was also conferred with a Chieftaincy title by the King of Ibadanland in West Africa. Bolaji is a well known African writer who has published lots of fiction, poetry, literary criticism, biographies, and drama. This is his latest book, containing a selection of his recent, diverse, shorter writings for magazines, journals, anthologies etc. Topics, or/and protagonists covered in this sparkling work include: DH Lawrence Lewis Nkosi The allure of Father Xmas! The National English Literary Museum (Grahamstown) Steve Biko Nigerian, and South African Writers Camara Laye Dambudzo Marechera NMM Duman Gabriel Okara Facebook Ola Rotimi The tormentone Gordon Banks Horrific Murder/Rape Segun Odegbami The Illustrators Teboho Masakala Musical Maestros Sheila Khala Relativity of poverty The Introduction to this illuminating book is written by the well known African critic and poet, Pule Lechesa.

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The early life and education of John Evelyn, 1620-1741

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High school sophomore McKenzie Gold discovers her psychic powers and the truth about her friend Kate's suicide when she involuntarily starts writing from Kate's perspective in her own diary.

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