Details

Subject(s)

• Gillespie, Emily Hawley 1838-1888—Diaries [Browse]
• Country life—Iowa—History—19th century [Browse]
• Iowa—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Iowa—Biography [Browse]
• Women—Iowa—History—19th century [Browse]

Related name

• Temple, Judy Nolte, 1948- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Diaries [Browse]

Series

• Bur oak original [More in this series]
• A Bur oak original

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-439) and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English.

ISBN

• 9781587291333 (electronic bk.)
• 1587291339 (electronic bk.)

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