Diary of Ordinary Woman Header
Title | Diary of Ordinary Woman Header PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Forster |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | |
Release | 2004-03-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780099470762 |
Diary of an Ordinary Woman, 1914-1995
Title | Diary of an Ordinary Woman, 1914-1995 PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Forster |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0099449285 |
On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war, tragedy, and money troubles. This title presents the 'edited' diary of this woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century.
Diary of an Ordinary Woman Specia
Title | Diary of an Ordinary Woman Specia PDF eBook |
Author | Forster |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2004-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780099477969 |
An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman
Title | An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Susan M. Ouellette |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2017-04-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1438464967 |
A rare nineteenth-century journal of an everyday woman richly infused with the minutiae of antebellum daily life and work. In 1820, Phebe Orvis began a journal that she faithfully kept for a decade. Richly detailed, her diary captures not only the everyday life of an ordinary woman in early nineteenth-century Vermont and New York, but also the unusual happenings of her family, neighborhood, and beyond. The journal entries trace Orviss transition from single life to marriage and motherhood, including her time at the Middlebury Female Seminary and her observations about the changing social and economic environment of the period. A Quaker, Orvis also recorded the details of the waxing passion of the Second Great Awakening in the people around her, as well as the conflict the fervor caused within her own family. In the first section of the book, Susan M. Ouellette includes a series of essays that illuminate Orviss diary entries and broaden the social landscape she inhabited. These essays focus on Orvis and, more importantly, the experience of ordinary people as they navigated the new nation, the new century, and the emerging American society and culture. The second section is a transcript of the original journal. This combination of analytical essays and primary source material offers readers a unique perspective of domestic life in northern New England as well as upstate New York in the early nineteenth century. Ouellettes chronicle offers the reader a beautifully crafted and richly textured account of ten years in the life of a young woman as she transitions from unmarried to married life on the New York and Vermont frontier. In the hands of Ouellette, the diary of Phebe Orvis is interpreted with skill and grace, and her life experiences are firmly grounded in the vibrant world of post-revolutionary America. This engaging work will be liked by those readers seeking a deeper understanding of the lives of women and family in the Early Republic as well as those interested in the history of New York, Vermont, and the American frontier. Jacqueline Barbara Carr, author of After the Siege: A Social History of Boston, 17751800 Unraveling intricate threads from a young womans nineteenth-century diary, Ouellette deftly weaves them into a picture of life in northern Vermont and New York during the Early Republic. Themes of life, death, courting, marriage, travels, fears, and yearnings jump off the pages as Ouellette works her magic not only bringing Phebe Orvis to life but also using the diary and other primary sources to place Phebes life within the larger context of her times, gender, and social class. A wonderful read. Elise A. Guyette, author of Discovering Black Vermont: African American Farmers in Hinesburgh, 17901890
Heading South to Teach
Title | Heading South to Teach PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Tolley |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2015-08-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469624346 |
Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many teachers to venture south across the Mason-Dixon Line in the Second Great Awakening. From 1815 to 1841, she kept journals about her career, family life, and encounters with slavery. Drawing on these journals and hundreds of other documents, Kim Tolley uses Hutchison's life to explore the significance of education in transforming American society in the early national period. Tolley examines the roles of ambitious, educated women like Hutchison who became teachers for economic, spiritual, and professional reasons. During this era, working women faced significant struggles when balancing career ambitions with social conventions about female domesticity. Hutchison's eventual position as head of a respected southern academy was as close to equity as any woman could achieve in any field. By recounting Hutchison's experiences--from praying with slaves and free blacks in the streets of Raleigh and establishing an independent school in Georgia to defying North Carolina law by teaching slaves to read--Tolley offers a rich microhistory of an antebellum teacher. Hutchison's story reveals broad social and cultural shifts and opens an important window onto the world of women's work in southern education.
The Woman's Medical Journal
Title | The Woman's Medical Journal PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Medicine |
ISBN |
Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
Title | Gabi, a Girl in Pieces PDF eBook |
Author | Isabel Quintero |
Publisher | Cinco Puntos Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2014-10-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1935955942 |
Gabi’s a girl in pieces. She wants a lot of things. Will she find the thing she needs most?