Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth-Century Woman, Caroline Healey Dall

Title: Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth-Century Woman, Caroline Healey Dall
Author: Helen Deese
ISBN: 9780807050354
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Good
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Publisher Description:
In nineteenth-century Boston, amidst the popular lecturing of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the discussion groups led by Margaret Fuller, sat a remarkable young woman, Caroline Healey Dall (1822-1912): transcendentalist, early feminist, writer, reformer, and, perhaps most importantly, active diarist. During the seventy-five years that Dall kept a diary, she captured all the fascinating details of her sometimes agonizing personal life, and she also wrote about all the major figures who surrounded her. Her diary, filling forty-five volumes, is perhaps the longest running diary ever written by any American and the most complete account of a nineteenth-century woman's life.

In Daughter of Boston, scholar Helen Deese has painstakingly combed through these diaries and created a single fascinating volume of Dall's observations, judgments, descriptions, and reactions.