Keeping Secrets: The Girlhood Diaries of Seven Women Writers
Sep 2015 · Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
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About this ebook
Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Forten, Kate Chopin, Sarah Jane Foster, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Ida B. Wells, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman were 19th century young women who grew up to be novelists, poets, essayists, or journalists. Keeping a private diary helped each girl find her public voice.
"A collection of seven literary biographies liberally sprinkled with brief quotations from the subjects' diaries, written when they were young adults." - School Library Journal, starred review
"Lyons writes with style and feeling, creating a strong sense of each individual life story, even as she gives us a social history of what it was like to be a woman at that time. ... Any teen who keeps a journal will recognize what the title implies: the private world behind the mask of duty." - Booklist
"A collection of seven literary biographies liberally sprinkled with brief quotations from the subjects' diaries, written when they were young adults." - School Library Journal, starred review
"Lyons writes with style and feeling, creating a strong sense of each individual life story, even as she gives us a social history of what it was like to be a woman at that time. ... Any teen who keeps a journal will recognize what the title implies: the private world behind the mask of duty." - Booklist
About the author
Mary Lyons is the author of a number of award-winning books, including Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston; Raw Head, Bloody Bones: African-American Tales of the Supernatural; and Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs. She lives with her husband in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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