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"A secret to be burried" : the diary and life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888 /
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 ru...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Iowa City, IA :
University of Iowa Press,
1989.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Bur oak original.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 445 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-439) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1587291339 9781587291333 |
| Access: | Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff. |