Adeline and Julia : 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].

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Adeline and Julia : 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].

Adeline & Julia

9780870139048 (electronic bk.)
0870139045 (electronic bk.)
0870135139 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780870135132 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2000.

English

1 online resource (viii, 237 pages) : illustrations

F574.B47 G73 2000

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 in t.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)

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