"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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Gillespie, Emily Hawley, 1838-1888
Autres auteurs: Temple, Judy Nolte, 1948-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, 1989.
Édition:1st ed.
Collection:Bur oak original.
Sujets:
Gillespie, Emily Hawley, > 1838-1888 > Diaries.
Gillespie, Emily Hawley, > 1838-1888
1800-1899
Country life > Iowa > History > 19th century.
Women > Iowa > History > 19th century.
Femmes > Iowa > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Country life
Manners and customs
Women
Iowa > Social life and customs.
Iowa > Biography.
Iowa > Biographies.
Iowa > Mœurs et coutumes.
Iowa
Electronic books.
Diary
Biography
diaries.
Biographies
Diaries
History
Diaries.
Biographies.
Journaux intimes.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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