Adeline & Julia: Growing Up in Michigan and on the Kansas Frontier: Diaries and Letters from 19th-Century America - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870135139 ISBN 13: 9780870135132

Verlag: Michigan State University Press, 2000

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Book by Robert Myers editors Janet Coryell

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The keeping of journals and diaries became an almost everyday pastime for many Americans in the nineteenth century. Adeline and Julia Graham, two young women from Berrien Springs, Michigan, were both drawn to this activity, writing about the daily events in their lives, as well as their 'grand adventures.' These are fascinating, deeply personal accounts that provide an insight into the thoughts and motivation of two sisters who lived more than a century ago. Adeline began keeping a diary when she was sixteen, from mid-1880 through mid-1884; through it we see a young woman coming of age in this small community in western Michigan. Paired with Adeline's account is her sister Julia's diary, which begins in 1885 when she sets out with three other young women to homestead in Greeley County, Kansas, just east of the Colorado border. It is a vivid and colorful narrative of a young woman's journey into America's western landscape.

Biografía del autor:

Janet Coryell is Associate Professor of History at Western Michigan University.

Robert Myers is Director of the Berrien Springs Historical Association.

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• Verlag: Michigan State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0870135139
• ISBN 13: 9780870135132
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 237
• Herausgeber: Coryell Janet C., Meyers Robert C.