A widow's tale the 1884-1896 diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney

Volume 6, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, ed. Maureen Ursenbach BeecherMormon culture has produced during its history an unusual number of historically valuable personal writings. Few such diaries, journals, and memoirs published have provided as rich and well rounded a window into their aut...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitney, Helen Mar, 1828-1896 (-)
Other Authors: Hatch, Charles M., 1945-, Compton, Todd, 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press 2003.
Series:Life writings of frontier women ; v. 6.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432622306719
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Helen Mar Whitney's Family
  • 1884 Horace Has Spent a Dreadful Night
  • 1885 Oh! How I Feel My Loss-My Widowhood
  • 1886 It Seemed Like a Dream That I Must Awake From
  • 1887 I Woke Myself Sobbing Three Times
  • 1888 This Valley Is Covered with Thick Fog Today-Very Dreary
  • 1889 A Beautiful White Cof.n Held the Little Lamb &amp
  • All Pronounced Him Beautiful
  • 1890 A "Liberal" Gang of the Scum &amp
  • Boys Passed Up Our Street
  • 1891 E. M. Wells Came to See Us, &amp
  • the House, at Evening-Thought It Lovely
  • 1892 We've Got to Do Something to Keep Ourselves Out of Debt
  • 1893 Mary . . . Gone to Chicago . . . We Can't Afford to Go to the Saltair
  • 1894 They Were the Best &amp
  • Firmest in the Cause of Truth
  • 1895 She . . . Proposed to Have All Lay Hands on My Head &amp
  • Rebuke My Af.ictions
  • 1896 I Couldnt Talk Right-After One Word All Was Mudled
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Register of Names in the Diary
  • Index.