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

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 ru...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gillespie, Emily Hawley, 1838-1888
Corporate Author: Alexander Street (Firm)
Other Authors: Temple, Judy Nolte, 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, 1989.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Bur oak original.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 445 pages) : illustrations
Format: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.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-439) and index.
ISBN:1587291339
9781587291333