A Secret to Be Buried: The Diary and Life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888 (Burr Oak Original) - Softcover

Gillespie, Emily Hawley; Lensink, Judy Nolte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877452377 ISBN 13: 9780877452379

Verlag: University of Iowa Press, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

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 woman. Through Emily's journals, readers are offered immediate and unmodified contact with settlers in Iowa one hundred years ago. A wealth of facts are included—what produce she harvested and preserved from her garden, how her husband tended his fields and what he raised, the challenges and rewards of family life.

Judy Lensink's skillful analysis shows the larger patterns in Emily Gillespie's life and provides keys that unlock the diary's secrets. Emily's life is revealed as a youth full of promise fading into middle and declining years of lost dreams and eventual tragedy, which caused her to write, "I have written many things in my journal, but the worst is a secret to be burried when I shall cease to be."

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Judy Nolte Lensick is currently an administrative faculty member at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she teaches courses on women’s literature and southwestern literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Iowa Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0877452377
• ISBN 13: 9780877452379
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 445
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