"A secret to be burried": the diary and life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888
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1. Verfasser: Gillespie, Emily Hawley (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Iowa City, IA University of Iowa Press 1989
Ausgabe:1st ed
Schriftenreihe:Bur oak original
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Beschreibung:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-439) and index
The sound of nineteenth-century women, once thought lost to us, is alive because ordinary women like Emily Hawley Gillespie gave voice to their thoughts in diaries. This condensed version of the 2,500-page journals of Emily Gillespie, faithfully written from 1858 to 1888, is a detailed account of rural Iowa life. More than this, it contains the reflections of a woman who dreamed of being a painter and writer and instead became a wife and a mother, a woman whose radical convictions were recorded in her diary, while publicly she conformed to the prescribed life of a Victorian pioneer wom
Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Diary as Living History; Part I: "Untill the Right One": Emily Hawley, Unmarried Woman; 1. "A Home at Father's": 1858- 1860; 2. "We Cannot Always Live at Home": 1861-1862; 3. Emily Hawley, Unmarried Woman; Part II: "We Are a Happy Family Circle": Emily Gillespie, Wife and Mother; 4. "Seems Good to Know We Live at Home": 1862-1874; 5. Emily Gillespie, Wife and Mother; Part III: "Woman Is Always Lovely-Until Her Strength & Beauty Fail": Emily Hawley Gillespie, Woman; 6. "Tis the Saddest ... Merely to Be Always at Home":1874- 1883
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 445 pages)
ISBN:1587291339
9781587291333

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