{"product_id":"9781587291333","title":"A Secret To Be Burried: Diary Emily Hawley Gillespie","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe sound of nineteenth-century women, once thought lost to us, is alive because ordinary women like Emily Hawley Gillespie gave voice to their thoughts in diaries. This condensed version of the 2,500-page journals of Emily Gillespie, faithfully written from 1858 to 1888, is a detailed account of rural Iowa life. More than this, it contains the reflections of a woman who dreamed of being a painter and writer and instead became a wife and a mother, a woman whose radical convictions were recorded in her diary, while publicly she conformed to the prescribed life of a Victorian pioneer woman. Through Emily's journals, readers are offered immediate and unmodified contact with settlers in Iowa one hundred years ago. A wealth of facts are included—what produce she harvested and preserved from her garden, how her husband tended his fields and what he raised, the challenges and rewards of family life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJudy Lensink's skillful analysis shows the larger patterns in Emily Gillespie's life and provides keys that unlock the diary's secrets. Emily's life is revealed as a youth full of promise fading into middle and declining years of lost dreams and eventual tragedy, which caused her to write, \"I have written \u003ci\u003emany\u003c\/i\u003e things in my journal, but the worst is a secret to be burried when I shall cease to be.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133131374832,"sku":"9781587291333","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781587291333_p0.jpg?v=1763784611","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781587291333","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}