Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey

Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey

Author: Lillian Schlissel

Publisher: Schocken

Published: 2011-08-03

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0307803171

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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.


Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love

Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love

Author: Miriam Karpilove

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2020-01-23

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0815654901

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First published serially in the Yiddish daily newspaper di Varhayt in 1916–18, Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love is a novel of intimate feelings and scandalous behaviors, shot through with a dark humor. From the perch of a diarist writing in first person about her own love life, Miriam Karpilove’s novel offers a snarky, melodramatic criticism of radical leftist immigrant youth culture in early twentieth-century New York City. Squeezed between men who use their freethinking ideals to pressure her to be sexually available and nosy landladies who require her to maintain her respectability, the narrator expresses frustration at her vulnerable circumstances with wry irreverence. The novel boldly explores issues of consent, body autonomy, women’s empowerment and disempowerment around sexuality, courtship, and politics. Karpilove immigrated to the United States from a small town near Minsk in 1905 and went on to become one of the most prolific and widely published women writers of prose in Yiddish. Kirzane’s skillful translation gives English readers long-overdue access to Karpilove’s original and provocative voice.


A Day at a Time

A Day at a Time

Author: Margo Culley

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780935312515

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Gathers diary selections, describes the historical background of each writer, and discusses the changing function and content of diaries.


Emilie Davis’s Civil War

Emilie Davis’s Civil War

Author: Judith Giesberg

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2016-06-08

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0271064315

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Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute for Colored Youth, and was an active member of her community. She lived an average life in her day, but what sets her apart is that she kept a diary. Her daily entries from 1863 to 1865 touch on the momentous and the mundane: she discusses her own and her community’s reactions to events of the war, such as the Battle of Gettysburg, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the assassination of President Lincoln, as well as the minutiae of social life in Philadelphia’s black community. Her diaries allow the reader to experience the Civil War in “real time” and are a counterpoint to more widely known diaries of the period. Judith Giesberg has written an accessible introduction, situating Davis and her diaries within the historical, cultural, and political context of wartime Philadelphia. In addition to furnishing a new window through which to view the war’s major events, Davis’s diaries give us a rare look at how the war was experienced as a part of everyday life—how its dramatic turns and lulls and its pervasive, agonizing uncertainty affected a northern city with a vibrant black community.


Anne Frank

Anne Frank

Author: Anne Frank

Publisher:

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 9780671430290

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Traces the life of a young Jewish girl who kept a diary during the two years she and her family hid from the Germans in an Amsterdam attic.


The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Revised Edition

The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Revised Edition

Author: Phoebe Gloeckner

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1623170346

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First released in 2002, this provocative, critically acclaimed novel is now a major motion picture starring Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig, and Alexander Skarsgård. “I don't remember being born. I was a very ugly child. My appearance has not improved so I guess it was a lucky break when he was attracted by my youthfulness.” So begins the wrenching diary of Minnie Goetze, a fifteen-year-old girl longing for love and acceptance and struggling with her own precocious sexuality. After losing her virginity to her mother's boyfriend, Minnie pursues a string of sexual encounters (with both boys and girls) while experimenting with drugs and developing her talents as an artist. Unsupervised and unguided by her aloof and narcissistic mother, Minnie plunges into a defenseless, yet fearless adolescence. While set in the libertine atmosphere of 1970s San Francisco, Minnie's journey to understand herself and her world is universal: this is the story of a young woman troubled by the discontinuity between what she thinks and feels and what she observes in those around her. Acclaimed cartoonist and author Phoebe Gloeckner serves up a deft blend of visual and verbal narrative in her complex presentation of a pivotal year in a girl's life, recounted in diary pages and illustrations, with full narrative sequences in comics form. The Diary of a Teenage Girl offers a searing comment on adult society as seen though the eyes of a young woman on the verge of joining it. This edition has been updated by the author with an introduction reflecting on the book's critical reception and value as diary or novel, historical document or work of art. Also included in this revised edition are supplementary photographs and illustrations from the author's childhood, including some of her own diary entries. "Phoebe Gloeckner... is creating some of the edgiest work about young women's lives in any medium."—The New York Times "One of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender and beautiful portrayals of growing up female in America."—Salon "It's the most honest depiction of sexuality in a long, long time; as a meditation on adolescence, it picks up a literary ball that's been only fitfully carried after Salinger."—Nerve.com


A Southern Woman

A Southern Woman

Author: Elena Yates Eulo

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780312087517

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Abandoned and ostracised during the Civil War, Elizabeth hides with her infant child in a Tennessee backwoods, where she is taken in hand by a woman who teaches the value of independence, and helps her forge a new life.


The Diary of a Woman

The Diary of a Woman

Author: Octave Feuillet

Publisher:

Published: 2017-06-22

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9783337202002

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The diary of a woman is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.


Emily, the Diary of a Hard-worked Woman

Emily, the Diary of a Hard-worked Woman

Author: Emily French

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780803268616

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Shares the diary of a poor, divorced working woman in 1890s Colorado and describes her background and family


The Diary of Mattie Spenser

The Diary of Mattie Spenser

Author: Sandra Dallas

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1998-05-15

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780312187101

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Mattie Spenser and her new husband Luke start off to the west. As they live their life Mattie keeps a journal of the joys and frustrations of frontier life and marriage.