"Presents excerpts from the diary of Sarah Gillespie, a pioneer girl living in Iowa in the late 1860s"--
Pioneer Farm Girl: The Diary of Sarah Gillespie, 1877-187
Presents the diary of the sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Quaker family who moved with her family from British-occupied Philadelphia for the safety of the countryside during the Revolutionary War.
"Sarah Gillespie Huftalen led an unconventional life for a rural midwestern woman of her time. Born in 1865 near Manchester, Iowa, she was a farm girl who became a highly...
Pioneer Farm Girl
"Enoch Arden" -Tennyson. 17. "The Master Christian"-Marie Corelli The Diary ofEdythe M. Miller, 1911 In 1911, when she began keeping this diary, Edythe M. Miller was just about to turn eighteen and was living in the southeastern Iowa ...
As this entry demonstrates , Sarah's diary continued to be her " constant friend ” throughout this trying time in her life . By June 1917 , Sarah's health had broken , and she spent five weeks at Hinsdale Sanitarium near Chicago .
This essay builds on the analysis of Emily Hawley Gillespie's diary by Judy Nolte Lensink in “A Secret to Be Burned”: The Diary and Life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858–1888 (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989), and of Sarah ...
Both Emily's and Sarah's diaries are located in the Sarah Gillespie Huftalen Collection , State Historical Society of Iowa , Iowa City . Bunkers is editor of Sarah's diary , " All Will Yet Be Well " : The Diary of Sarah Gillespie ...
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J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur , Letters From an American Farmer , ed . ... Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Pres , 1984 ) , 238–40 ; and Alice H. Jones , Wealth of a Nation to Be ( New York ...