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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781563503321

Autore

Graham Adeline <1864-1934.>

Titolo

Adeline and Julia [[electronic resource] ] : growing up in Michigan and on the Kansas frontier : diaries from 19th-century America / / edited by Janet L. Coryell and Robert C. Myers ; [introduction by Susan Armitage]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2000

ISBN

1-62896-176-7

0-87013-904-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GrahamJulia <1862-1900.>

CoryellJanet L. <1955->

MyersRobert C

ArmitageSusan

Disciplina

977.4/11

Soggetti

Sisters - Michigan - Berrien Springs

Young women - Michigan - Berrien Springs

Frontier and pioneer life - Michigan - Berrien Springs

Frontier and pioneer life - Kansas - Greeley County

Young women - Kansas - Greeley County

Berrien Springs (Mich.) Biography

Berrien Springs (Mich.) Social life and customs 19th century

Greeley County (Kan.) Social life and customs 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Annotated diaries of two young sisters, Adeline and Julia Graham, written during their adolescent years growing up in Berrien Springs, Michigan in the 1880s. Also includes Julia's diary from the year she spent homesteading with three other young women on the Kansas frontier.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Growing up in Michigan : the diary of Adeline Graham -- pt. 2. Julia Graham's Kansas adventure : the diary of Julia Graham.

Sommario/riassunto

The keeping of journals and diaries became an almost everyday pastime for many Americans in the nineteenth century. Adeline and Julia Graham, two young women from Berrien Springs, Michigan, were



both drawn to this activity, writing about the daily events in their lives, as well as their ''grand adventures.'' These are fascinating, deeply personal accounts that provide an insight into the thoughts and motivation of two sisters who lived more than a century ago. Adeline began keeping a diary when she was sixteen, from mid-1880 through mid-1884; through it we see a young woman coming of age...