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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitney, Helen Mar, 1828-1896
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Hatch, Charles M., 1945-, Compton, Todd, 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2003.
Series:Life writings of frontier women ; v. 6.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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 Sobbing Three Times
  • 1888: This Valley Is Covered with Thick Fog to Day
  • 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.