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In our own words : New England diaries, 1600 to the present |
| Author |
Benes, Peter |
Coverage
| Place |
Maine, United States
New Hampshire, United States
Vermont, United States
Massachusetts, United States
Rhode Island, United States
Connecticut, United States |
| Surname |
Atkins, Bailey, Bargar, Barrows, Hitchcock, Kennon, Kinsman, Minor, Orvis, Peabody, Rowe, Scott, Walker |
| Subject |
Biography |
Publication information
| Type |
Book |
| Publisher |
Boston University |
| Date issued |
2009 |
| Place issued |
Boston |
| Periodical / Series name |
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife annual proceedings, 2006, 2007 |
| Number of Volumes |
2 |
Citation
| Benes, Peter. In our own words : New England diaries, 1600 to the present. (Boston: Boston University, 2009). |
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Vol 1: Diary Diversity, Coming of Age
- Introduction
- Another look at Madam Knight
- John Rowe changes his diary
- A tour of the New England diary, 1650-1900
- "i have used the words of others to tell my mind": composing the self in early New England women's commonplace books
- Gendered "relations" in Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1719-1742
- "so ends this day": personal records of life at sea from nineteenth-century New England cod fishermen's logs
- Needles and pens: the sewing diaries of American women, 1890-1920
- The Revolutionary-era boy and "his joyrnal": diary keeping as a step toward manhood
- "I sure am getting a liberal education": the evolution of heterosocial relationships at northern women's colleges, 1900-1925
- Mr. Jacob Bailey and the ladies
- "rendered ... more ignorant than others": early female education in the journal of Phebe Orvis
- The druggist's apprentice: a diary of coming of age in antebellum Boston
- Until evening: the restless diary of John McCullough Bargar at the New England Conservatory, 1886
- "many scenes of joy and sorrow": the diaries of Almira and Nancy Helmer
Vol 2: Neighborhood, war, travel and history
- A neighborhood of diaries: North Pomfret, Vermont
- Soul searching: ten diaries from Otisfield, Maine
- "I am going to tell the truth in this diary though it may sound rather conceited": truth, courtship, and female identity in the diary of Marian Lawrence Peabody
- A face in the crowd
- A soldier of the empire: the French and Indian War journal of Abner Barrows, 1756-1758
- The diary of Private Josiah Atkins: death and military diaries during the American Revolutionary War
- A trail in paper: Thomas Minor's diary and the evolution of travel in New England, 1653-1684
- Orra White Hitchcock's European diary, 1850
- "Demure Quakeress": Rebecca Kinsman in China, 1843-1847
- Job Scott's last journey: the 1793 journal of a Rhode Island Quaker
- The Walkers build their farm: the motivation for nineteenth-century New England farmstead reform
- Painting the scene: women, men, and the work of whaling aboard the ship Nauticon, 1848-1853
- "Bound for desolation": Charles Kennon's journal aboard the bark Laurens
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