This title presents the previously unpublished letters of a major twentieth-century writer and his wife. Born in Vienna in 1881, Stefan Zweig was one of the most respected authors of his time. Foreseeing Nazi Germany's domination of Europe, Zweig left Austria in 1933. In 1941, following a successful lecture tour of South America and several months in New York, Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte emigrated to Brazil. Despairing at Europe's future and feeling increasingly isolated, the Zweigs committed suicide together in 1942. Stefan Zweig was an incessant correspondent but as the 1930s progressed, it became difficult for him to maintain contact with friends and colleagues. As Zweig's correspondence all but ceased with the outbreak of World War II, little is known about his final years. Even less is known about Lotte Zweig, his second-wife, secretary and travel-companion. This book provides an analysis of the Zweigs' time together and for the first time reproduces personal letters, written by the couple in Argentina and Brazil, along with editorial commentary. Furthermore, Lotte finally emerges from her husband's shadows, with the letters offering significant insights into their relationship and her experience of exile.

This title includes the previously unpublished letters of a major twentieth-century writer and his wife. Born in Vienna in 1881, Stefan Zweig was one of the most respected authors of his time. Foreseeing Nazi Germany's domination of Europe, Zweig left Austria in 1933. In 1941, following a successful lecture tour of South America and several months in New York, Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte emigrated to Brazil. Despairing at Europe's future and feeling increasingly isolated, the Zweigs committed suicide together in 1942. Stefan Zweig was an incessant correspondent but as the 1930s progressed, it became difficult for him to maintain contact with friends and colleagues. As Zweig's correspondence all but ceased with the outbreak of World War II, little is known about his final years. Even less is known about Lotte Zweig, his second-wife, secretary and travel-companion. This book provides an analysis of the Zweigs' time together and for the first time reproduces personal letters, written by the couple in Argentina and Brazil, along with editorial commentary. Furthermore, Lotte finally emerges from her husband's shadows, with the letters offering significant insights into their relationship and her experience of exile.

One enduring legacy of the close relationship between Britain and Brazil over the course of centuries is the existence in the British Isles of a wealth of archival holdings relating to Brazil. Brazil in British and Irish Archives is the first guide devoted to this rich resource. The Brazil-related manuscript holdings of 79 British and Irish archives, libraries and museums that are described in this expanded and revised second edition of the guide are extremely varied, but together they offer unique insights into 16th- to 20th-century Brazilian history. Although this material is especially important for the understanding of 19th- and early 20th-century British-Brazilian relations, many other historical themes and periods are illuminated. Historians will find Brazil in British and Irish Archives to be an invaluable tool for identifying material that is held by national, local and specialist archival repositories

Brazil is not usually associated with British agricultural immigrants, but in the late 1860s and early 1870s great efforts were made to stimulate interest in the country. An idealized image of Brazil was created to help persuade dissatisfied Irish and English to pack up and join settlement schemes in a country that they had previously known nothing about. This book offers a vivid picture of this migration process and new insights into linkages between Ireland, England, the United States and Brazil. Focusing on the lives of individual immigrants, this is one of the most detailed studies of life in the Brazilian government's isolated and under-funded agricultural settlement schemes.

Uma prova definitiva da relacao de proximidade desenvolvida entre a Gra-Bretanha e o Brazil ao longo de seculos e a existencia nas Ilhas Britanicas de um rico patrimonio arquivistico sobre o Brasil. Brasil nos Arquivos Britanicos e Irlandeses foi o primeiro guia dedicado a esse magnifico legado, agora publicado em lingua portuguesa em versao revista e ampliada. O guia, que lista e descreve 79 colecoes de manuscritos relativos ao Brasil existentes em arquivos, bibliotecas e museus britancos e irlandeses, oferece importantes subsidios para a historia do Brasil do seculo XVI ao XX. Embora esse material seja particularmente importante para a compreensao das relacoes Gra-Bretanha-Brasil no seculo XIX e inicio do XX, outros temas e periodos historicos sao tambem contemplados. Os historiadores reconhecerao em Brasil nos Arquivos Britanicos e Irlandeses valioso instrumento de identificacao desse rico acervo mantido por repositorios arquivisticos locais, nacionais e especializados, espalhados pelas ilhas britanicas.