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'Totally addictive.''
 Alice Loxton, The Daily Telegraph

''An intriguing, highly snackable guide to women's experiences.''
Independent

''A modern classic.''
Alison Weir, author and historian

''The sort of book you return to again and again.''
Tracy Borman, author and historian

A captivating collection of daily extracts from women''s diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women''s experience of men and children, sex and shopping, work and the natural world has changed down the years. And, of course, how it hasn''t.

Organised around the calendar year, in this engaging anthology you'll find Lady Anne Clifford in the seventeenth century and Loran Hurnscot in the twentieth both stoically recording the demands of an unreasonable husband; Joan Wyndham and Anne Frank, at much the same time, but in wildly different settings, describing their first expe

Secret Voices

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      Publisher Batsford
      Published 2/29/2024
      ISBN-13 9781849948159
      978-1849948159
      ISBN-10 1849948151
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      Non Fiction Biography Published diaries, letters and journals

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      'Totally addictive.''
       Alice Loxton, The Daily Telegraph

      ''An intriguing, highly snackable guide to women's experiences.''
      Independent

      ''A modern classic.''
      Alison Weir, author and historian

      ''The sort of book you return to again and again.''
      Tracy Borman, author and historian

      A captivating collection of daily extracts from women''s diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women''s experience of men and children, sex and shopping, work and the natural world has changed down the years. And, of course, how it hasn''t.

      Organised around the calendar year, in this engaging anthology you'll find Lady Anne Clifford in the seventeenth century and Loran Hurnscot in the twentieth both stoically recording the demands of an unreasonable husband; Joan Wyndham and Anne Frank, at much the same time, but in wildly different settings, describing their first expe

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