Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

ISBN: 1849948151

Author: Gristwood, Sarah

Condition: New

A captivating collection of extracts from womens diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how womens experience-of men and children, sex and shopping, work and the natural world-has changed down the years. And, of course, how it hasnt.In this fascinating anthology, with a selection of entries for every day of the year, youll 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.