0 a book or other piece of writing based on the writer's personal knowledge of famous people, places, or events:
1 a written record of a person’s knowledge of events or of a person's own experiences:
What the editors have categorized as ' memoirs ' constitute the collection's eighth chapter.
What ensued from that debate became a mythic moment that resonates throughout countless memoirs, documentaries and commentaries on the period.
One of the main first impressions made by these memoirs is the clarity and attractiveness of their format.
Their memoirs detailed not only how to smoke but also why.
Of all late seventeenth-century genres, memoirs were least subject to the rules of composition, distinguishing them sharply from history.
The answer is that memoirs are and will remain particularly important because so much of the diplomacy was conducted informally on a personal level.
Because memoirs are often the unconscious defences of the author's ego, historians are suspicious of them.
The natural exigencies of participation in eighteenth-century conspiracy necessarily militated against record-keeping and memoirs of this kind.
