Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries by Gristwood, Sarah

Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

"United across centuries, these women's voices open doors to lost worlds and make them seem familiar. A...
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Author: Sarah Gristwood
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Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries by Gristwood, Sarah

Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

BD$52.37

Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

BD$52.37
Author: Sarah Gristwood
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
"United across centuries, these women's voices open doors to lost worlds and make them seem familiar. A modern classic." --Alison Weir

A captivating collection of extracts from women's diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women's experience--of men and children, sex and shopping, work and the natural world--has changed down the years. And, of course, how it hasn't.

In this fascinating anthology, with a selection of entries for every day of the year, you'll find Lady Anne Clifford in the seventeenth century and Loran Hurscot in the twentieth both stoically recording the demands of an unreasonable husband; Joan Wyndham and Anne Frank (at much the same time, but in wildly different settings) describing their first experiences with sex; and Anne Lister in the eighteenth-century north of England exploring her love affairs with women alongside Alice Walker in twentieth-century California.

From Barbara Pym purchasing daring lingerie and Virginia Woolf relishing her new haircut to Sylvia Plath chronicling her ups and her downs and a stoical Amelia Stewart Knight on the pioneer trail, this book contains a rich mix of incredibly well-known diarists and more obscure ones, and often the voices echoing down the centuries sound eerily familiar today.

Author: Sarah Gristwood
Publisher: Batsford
Published: 02/27/2024
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9781849948159

About the Author
Sarah Gristwood is a biographer, journalist, and commenter on royal affairs. Her previous books include the bestselling Arbella: England's Lost Queen, The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty, and biographies of Beatrix Potter, Winston Churchill, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, and HM Queen Elizabeth II. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Patron of Historic Royal Palaces, and regularly contributes to TV documentary series and coverage of royal events.

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