"A secret to be burried" : the diary and life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888

The Resource "A secret to be burried" : the diary and life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888
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"A secret to be burried" : the diary and life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888
Title remainder
the diary and life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888
Statement of responsibility
[edited by] Judy Nolte Lensink
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Language
eng
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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Action
digitized
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
N$T
Dewey number
977.7/02/0924
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Language note
English
LC call number
F621
LC item number
.G48 1989eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
A Bur oak original
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