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Author: Emily Hawley Gillespie ,
Judy Nolte Lensink
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Imprint: University of Iowa Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.50cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.735kg
ISBN: 9780877452379
ISBN 10: 0877452377
Pages: 445
Publication Date: 01 May 1989
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
""Between 1858 and 1888 Emily Hawley Gillespie kept a private record of her life on a rural Iowa farm. Increasingly, even as she maintained the outward trappings of Victorian propriety, she railed against her marriage, her limited domestic sphere, and her inability to make real choices about her own life. In 1989 Judy Nolte Lensick recovers Emily's lost voice, offering us a condensed version of the journals and a probing analysis of the ways in which women's diaries serve as autobiographies in the construction of a life story. For scholar and general reader alike, this is a fascinating study.""--Annette Kolodny ""Lensink's edition of the Gillespie diary...makes compelling reading...This diary will be important to women's historians...It is a tribute to Lensink's persistence that she is able to discern the important commentary embedded in the manuscript and to place it in the context of the best of current women's history.""--Linda K. Kerber
"""Between 1858 and 1888 Emily Hawley Gillespie kept a private record of her life on a rural Iowa farm. Increasingly, even as she maintained the outward trappings of Victorian propriety, she railed against her marriage, her limited domestic sphere, and her inability to make real choices about her own life. In 1989 Judy Nolte Lensick recovers Emily's lost voice, offering us a condensed version of the journals and a probing analysis of the ways in which women's diaries serve as autobiographies in the construction of a life story. For scholar and general reader alike, this is a fascinating study.""--Annette Kolodny ""Lensink's edition of the Gillespie diary...makes compelling reading...This diary will be important to women's historians...It is a tribute to Lensink's persistence that she is able to discern the important commentary embedded in the manuscript and to place it in the context of the best of current women's history.""--Linda K. Kerber"
Author Information
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.
