Item #:40650
Diary of a Young Woman on Martha’s Vineyard, 1914.
Manuscript
12mo, unpaginated. Approximately 350 pages of manuscript entries.
Price: $200
Diary of a Young Woman on Martha’s Vineyard, 1914.
Manuscript
12mo, unpaginated. Approximately 350 pages of manuscript entries.
Price: $200
This is one of those “page a day” diaries, so we are treated to a full 365 entries. She’s twenty-four years old and very social, as one might expect. But as idyllic as the place might seem to us now, not a great deal happened on Martha’s Vineyard in 1914. I think I would have gone nuts. This nameless diarist, who lived with her family, did chores, played solitaire and Flinch, and kept a close eye on the weather, was made of sterner stuff. She seems perfectly content in the fastness of her island routine. Bound in limp leather covers. Very good condition.
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