‘All is well’: The Construction of Martyrdom in the Diary of Emily Hawley Gillespie (1838-1888)
Emily Hawley Gillespie’s diaries offer a rare insight into the daily life of a farmer’s wife in 19th-century Iowa and into the intricate processes of diary writing and memory shaping. This extraordinarily voluminous journal, kept over three decades, was not meant to be a mere record of life and work...
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| Main Author: | Claire SORIN |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2014-12-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/4114 |
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