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This portrait of American women reveals the remarkable strengths and resources of ordinary women. Excerpts from 29 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.Culley, Margo is the author of 'Day at a Time: The Diary Literature of American Women Writers from 1764 to the Present' with ISBN 9780935312515 and ISBN 093531251X.
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