A Day at a Time: The Diary Literature of American Women Writers from 1764 to the Present

by Margo Culley and margo-culley

Book Overview

This richly textured portrait of American women reveals the remarkable strengths and resources of ordinary women. Excerpts from twenty-nine diaries include miniatures of the daily life of New England families in the late 1700s, overviews of the great expansion westward, and devastating portraits of the brutal politics of the 1960s and 1970s. The book also contains a bibliography of hundreds of women's diaries.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093531251X
• ISBN13: 9780935312515
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12