Script & Scribble by Kitty Burns Florey

Script & Scribble by Kitty Burns Florey

A witty and readable (and fetchingly illustrated and glossed) excursion through the history of handwriting. --The Wall Street Journal

Let a self-confessed penmanship nut take you on a tour of the strange and beautiful world of handwriting.

Since her Catholic school days learning the Palmer Method, Kitty Burns Florey has been in love with handwriting, and can't imagine a world where schools forego handwriting drills in favor of teaching something called keyboarding.

In this winsome mix of memoir and call to arms (Chicago Tribune), Florey weaves together the evolution of writing implements and scripts, pen-collecting societies, the golden age of American penmanship, and the growth in popularity of handwriting analysis, and asks the question: Is writing by hand really no longer necessary in today's busy world?

Charmingly composed and handsomely presented, Script & Scribble traces the history of penmanship to the importance of writing by hand in an increasingly digital age (The Boston Globe).

Florey, Kitty Burns: - Kitty Burns Florey is the author of twelve novels as well as many essays and short stories. She is best known for her two offbeat works of nonfiction, Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences and Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting, and for the novels Souvenir of Cold Springs and Solos. Born in Syracuse, she has lived in Boston, Brooklyn, and New Haven.

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ISBN 13	9781933633671
ISBN 10	1933633670
Title	Script & Scribble
Author	Kitty Burns Florey
Condition	Non disponible
Binding type	Hardback
Publisher	Melville House Publishing
Year published	2009-07-09
Number of pages	190
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