‘All is well’: The Construction of Martyrdom in the Diary of Emily Hawley Gillespie (1838-1888)

Emily Hawley Gillespie’s diaries offer a rare insight into the daily life of a farmer’s wife in 19th-century Iowa and into the intricate processes of diary writing and memory shaping. This extraordinarily voluminous journal, kept over three decades, was not meant to be a mere record of life and work...

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Main Author: Claire SORIN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2014-12-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/erea/4114
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