Secret Voices

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A Year of Women’s Diaries

Sarah Gristwood

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English

Batsford
27 February 2024

Diaries, letters & journals; Memoirs; Gender studies: women

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.

Queen Victoria laments the loss of her husband; housewife Nella Last finds that World War II has given her an unexpected independence from hers. Educationalist Sylvia Ashton-Warner in modern New Zealand asks how to juggle work and family; Canadian artist Emily Carr how to manage her work and her identity. Mary Shelley records the death of her baby in half a line; Anne Morrow Lindberg heartbreakingly chronicles the weeks after the kidnap and murder of her baby son.

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.

By: Sarah Gristwood
Imprint: Batsford
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 49mm
Weight: 566g
ISBN: 9781849948159
ISBN 10: 1849948151
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 27 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction January February March April May June July August September October November December Sources About the author

Sarah Gristwood is a biographer, journalist and commentator on royal affairs. Her previous books include the bestselling Arbella: England's Lost Queen, The Tudors in Love, Secret Voices 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. She lives in Kent.

Reviews for Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries

‘An extraordinary achievement. It's a book for all seasons – and all people. United across centuries, these women's voices open doors to lost worlds and make them seem familiar. A modern classic.’ Alison Weir, author of Queens of the Age of Chivalry 'Poignant, surprising and, at times, heart-breaking, this wonderful anthology brings the past within touching distance. The sort of book you return to again and again.' Tracy Borman, author of Elizabeth's Women 'An intriguing, highly snackable guide to women’s experiences over the past four centuries.' Independent This compelling book … provides a unique lens into historical events from around the world through the eyes of the women who experienced them first-hand. The mix of diarists included means there is truly something for everyone. * This England * …Filled with such unexpected twists and turns…totally addictive to peruse. Without exception, every entry sizzles, each one revealing some peculiar detail or fascinating insight, and together, forming a rich and vivid picture of the female experience… It is these private, long-hidden musings which Gristwood has so cleverly unearthed, and which Secret Voices – this treasure of a book – so elegantly, strikingly captures. -- Alice Loxton * The Daily Telegraph *