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

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Whitney, Helen Mar, 1828-1896 (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Hatch, Charles M., 1945- (Éditeur intellectuel), Compton, Todd, 1952- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2003.
Collection:Life writings of frontier women ; v. 6.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.