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Author : Joyce D. Goodfriend
Release : 1987
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Published Diaries and Letters of American Women by : Joyce D. Goodfriend
Download or read book The Published Diaries and Letters of American Women written by Joyce D. Goodfriend. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lillian Schlissel
Release : 2011-08-03
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by : Lillian Schlissel
Download or read book Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey written by Lillian Schlissel. This book was released on 2011-08-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade, which documents the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women.
Author : Lisa Grunwald
Release : 2009-01-21
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 334/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women's Letters by : Lisa Grunwald
Download or read book Women's Letters written by Lisa Grunwald. This book was released on 2009-01-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.
Author : John S. Hughes
Release : 1993
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman by : John S. Hughes
Download or read book The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman written by John S. Hughes. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Sheffield's letters help us better understand the full range of behavior among women in the Victorian South & the limits of Southern womanhood near the end of the nineteenth century.
Author : Penelope Franklin
Release : 1986
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Private Pages by : Penelope Franklin
Download or read book Private Pages written by Penelope Franklin. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare and valuable glimpse into the lives of American women--through their diaries, published here for the first time By turns delightful, poignant, and heartbreaking, these diary entries explore inner landscapes, telling of love, marriage, and motherhood, of religion and family obligation, of the need to break free, to improve oneself, and to make something of one's life. In Private Pages we meet a devoted student in Minneapolis in the 1920s, grappling with the issues of her a≥ a Midwestern farm wife stuck in a loveless marriage in the 1890s; a Depression-era Berkeley, California, woman writing for her unborn grandchildren; a Southern Jewish woman at the end of the Civil War; a professional writer falling in love; and eight others, all of whom touch us in unique ways as we come to know them intimately through their diaries. Customs and technologies change, but human emotions endure. From a turn-of-the-century thirteen-year-old with a schoolgirl crush on a teacher to an elderly nineteenth-century Quaker at the end of her life, each of these women strikes a chord of sympathy and understanding in us, for their concerns are, after all, very like our own.
