A Secret to Be Burried: Diary Emily Hawley Gillespie

by Judy Nolte Lensink and Judy N. Lensink

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877452377
• ISBN13: 9780877452379
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"