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1 online resource (xxvi, 445 pages) : illustrations |
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A Bur oak original |
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Bur oak original.
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Contents |
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 |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-439) and index |
Notes |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Gillespie, Emily Hawley, 1838-1888 -- Diaries
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SUBJECT |
Gillespie, Emily Hawley, 1838-1888 fast |
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Country life -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century
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Women -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Country life
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Manners and customs
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Women
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Iowa -- Social life and customs
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Iowa -- Biography
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Iowa -- Biography
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Iowa
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Electronic books
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diaries.
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Biographies
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Diaries
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History
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Diaries.
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Biographies.
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Journaux intimes.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Temple, Judy Nolte, 1948-
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ISBN |
1587291339 |
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9781587291333 |
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