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A Day at a Time:

The Diary Literature of American Women from 1764 to the Present
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Margo Culley
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Feminist Press at CUNY, 1985 - Biography & Autobiography - 341 pages
This portrait of American women reveals the remarkable strengths and resources of ordinary women. Excerpts from 29 diaries include miniatures of the daily life of New England families in the late 1700s, overviews of the great expansion westward, and devastating portraits of the brutal politics of the 1960s and 1970s. The book also contains a bibliography of hundreds of women's diaries.
  

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User Review  - April - Goodreads

Okay, this rating is not based on worth, for really I think it is worth five stars - how does one rate the lives of real people after all?! I highly recommend this book as I think it important. My ... Read full review

Review: A Day at a Time: The Diary Literature of American Women Writers from 1764 to the Present

User Review  - Susan - Goodreads

I confess to loving diaries. I made it through many volumes of Virginia Woolf.I really enjoyed this book, so much history and so much about the lives of women, and a very varied and well-chosen selection of entries. Read full review

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III
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IV
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V
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VI
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VII
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VIII
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IX
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X
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XIX
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XX
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XXI
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XXII
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XXIII
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XIII
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XIV
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XV
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XVI
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XVIII
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XXVII
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XXIX
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SELF SPEAKS TO SELF - New York Times
A DAY AT A TIME The Diary Literature of American Women From 1764 to the Present. Edited by Margo Culley. 341 pp. New York: The Feminist Press at the City ...
query.nytimes.com/ gst/ fullpage.html?res=9A0DE2DC143CF935A25750C0A960948260& sec=& spon=& pagewanted=print

Genealogy.com: Dear Diary: Discovering Your Female Ancestors
A Day at a Time: The Diary Literature of American Women from 1764 to the Present. New York: The Feminist Press, 1985. •, Franklin, Penelope, ed. ...
www.genealogy.com/ 87_carmack.html

Annotated Bibliography
Culley, Margo, ed., A Day at a Time: the Diary Literature of American Women from 1764 to the Present (New York: Feminist Press, 1985). ...
historymatters.gmu.edu/ mse/ letters/ bibliography.html

PART TWO: CITATIONS INDEXED BY COUNTRIES VISITED
A Day at a Time: The Diary Literature of American Women from 1764 to the Present. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York. 1985. pp. ...
www.africabib.org/ book/ Countries_K-M.htm

About the author (1985)

Margo Culley is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the editor of American Women s Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of Memory and A Day at a Time: Diary Literature of American Women, and co-editor of Women s Personal Narratives: Essays in Criticism and Pedagogy and Gendered Subjects: The Dynamics of Feminist Teaching. She teaches courses in American studies, women s studies, and ethnic studies.

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