A widow's tale : the 1884-1896 diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney /

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Volume 6, Life Writings of Frontier Women series. Few diaries, journals, and memoirs published have provided as rich and well rounded a window into their authors' lives and worlds as the diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney. Because it provides a rare account of the widely experienced situations...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Whitney, Helen Mar, 1828-1896 (Author)
Other Authors: Hatch, Charles M., 1945- (Editor), Compton, Todd, 1952- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2003.
Series:Life writings of frontier women ; v. 6.
Subjects:
Whitney, Helen Mar, > 1828-1896 > Diaries.
Whitney, Helen Mar, > 1828-1896.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > History > 19th century.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1800-1899
Latter Day Saint women > Diaries.
Latter Day Saint churches > History > 19th century.
Mormones > Journaux intimes.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Religious.
RELIGION > Christianity > Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Mormon Church.
Mormon women.
Diary
diaries.
Autobiographies.
Diaries.
History.
Journaux intimes.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
  • Helen Mar Whitney's family
  • 1884: Horace has spent a dreadful night
  • 1885: Oh! How i feel my loss-my widowhood
  • 1886: It seemed like a dream that I must awake from
  • 1887: I woke myself sobbing three times
  • 1888: This valley is covered with thick fog today- very dreary
  • 1889: a beautiful white coffin held the little lamb & all pronounced him beautiful
  • 1890: A "liberal" gang of the scum & boys passed up our street
  • 1891: E.M. Wells came to see us, & the house, at evening-thought it lovely
  • 1892: We've got to do something to keep ourselves out of debt
  • 1893: Mary ... gone to Chicago ... We can't afford to go to the Saltair
  • 1894: They were the best & firmest in the cause of truth
  • 1895: She ... proposed to have all lay hands on my head & rebuke my afflictions
  • 1896: I couldnt talk right-after one word all was mudled.

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