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Author: Lillian Schlissel
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 2011-08-03
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0307803171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 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: Suzanne L. Bunkers
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2001-05-30
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 0299172236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiaries of Girls and Women captures and preserves the diverse lives of forty-seven girls and women who lived in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin between 1837 and 1999—young schoolgirls, adolescents coming of age, newlywed wives, mothers grieving the loss of children, teachers, nurses, elderly women, Luxembourger immigrant nuns, and women traveling abroad. A compelling work of living history, it brings together both diaries from historical society archives and diaries still in possession of the diarists or their descendents. Editor Suzanne L. Bunkers has selected these excerpts from more than 450 diaries she examined. Some diaries were kept only briefly, others through an entire lifetime; some diaries are the intensely private record of a life, others tell the story of an entire family and were meant to be saved and appreciated by future generations. By approaching diaries as historical documents, therapeutic tools, and a form of literature, Bunkers offers readers insight into the self-images of girls and women, the dynamics of families and communities, and the kinds of contributions that girls and women have made, past and present. As a representation of the girls and women of varied historical eras, locales, races, and economic circumstances who settled and populated the Midwest, Diaries of Girls and Women adds texture and pattern to the fabric of American history.
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-05-23
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1501157868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He’s blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.
Author: Anne Frank
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780671430290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces 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.
Author: Mary Jane Moffat
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1975-06-12
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpts from the private diaries of women, known and unknown, among them Louisa May Alcott, Sophie Tolstoy, George Eliot, Anais Nin.
Author: Joni B. Cole
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1400082323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen from all walks of life recorded their reality on a single day, resulting in this collection of 35 complete "day diaries" and hundreds of excerpts written on Tuesday, June 29, 2004. The diarists reveal the surprising common connections.
Author: Phoebe Gloeckner
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1623170346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst 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
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Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2005-08-04
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780805075403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith shocking and vivid detail, the journal of a woman living through the Russian occupation of Berlin in 1945 tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject and describes the common experience of millions.
Author: Kate Simpson
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2020-03-03
Total Pages: 39
ISBN-13: 1760873543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt was 1914 when Sister Alice Ross-King left Australia for the war. Nursing was her passion - all she had ever wanted to do. But Alice couldn't have imagined what she would see. She served four long years and was brave, humble and endlessly compassionate. Using extracts from Alice's actual diaries kept in the Australian War Memorial, this true story captures the danger, the heartache and the history of the young nurse who would one day become the most decorated woman in Australia.
Author: Margo Culley
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780935312515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGathers diary selections, describes the historical background of each writer, and discusses the changing function and content of diaries.
