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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jun 07 2006 : 07:44:11 AM
KATHY{ENCHANTED WOODS}
Or whoever else might know, do you ever see any handwritten journals for sale on book sites etc.Can you recommend any women's journals that you have read that are in print? I have a stack of books about as tall as me, but always looking for something good to read and journals is one area that I have not looked into very much.
NANCY JO |
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| abbasgurl |
Posted - Jun 14 2006 : 10:51:52 PM
Oh Kim! I'm with Nancy, thank you for sharing this site! Looks WONDERFUL!
Rhonda
...and I will sing at the top of my lungs, and I will dance, even if I'm the only one! |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jun 14 2006 : 5:19:17 PM
kim
What a great site. could get lost there!!
NANCY JO |
| Carolinagirl |
Posted - Jun 14 2006 : 4:48:44 PM
Just came across this at one of my old journaling haunts.
http://www.artistsjournals.com/reviews/old-diaries-online.htm
Lots of online historical journals and diaries.
Kim in NC |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jun 13 2006 : 11:47:12 AM
Ashley
I'am reading MATTIE SPENCER right now, its a very nice read, I too love these kinds of books.
NANCY JO |
| Aunt George |
Posted - Jun 12 2006 : 9:39:45 PM
Wow, I've got so much to read, thanks everyone for your suggestions
Aunt George |
| EnchantedWoodsGirl |
Posted - Jun 12 2006 : 6:59:12 PM
Hi Nancy - I couldn't remember if I told you this so I had to check back at the postings. Look for a book called Country Matters by Jo Northrop. She used to be a columnist for Country Living Magazine and she wrote some really good ones. Also have you ever read any of Sharon Lovejoy - A Blessing of Toads - A Gardener's Guide to Living with Nature. She is an illustrator as well as author and has a regular column in Country Living Gardener. Also I know you would love books by Susan Branch - Autumn from the Heart of the Home - her books are a treat for the eyes as well as the soul.
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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| _Rebecca_ |
Posted - Jun 12 2006 : 5:07:43 PM
I have only had a chance to read a few entries, but I love Stepping Heavenward by Mrs. E. Prentiss. It's a little paperback. ISBN 1-57748-342-1
Everytime that I read parts of it I am uplifted and challenged and it makes me humble.
.·:*¨¨* :·.Rebecca.·:*¨¨* :·.
Wife of Jonathan, Mother of Joel, Caitlyn, Elia |
| Carolinagirl |
Posted - Jun 12 2006 : 2:02:58 PM
There's a fiction book called "These Is My Words" by Nancy Turner.It's written in dialect, vernacular, diary type entries and is really good. Apparently, there's a second one called "Sarah's Quilt" that continues the story, but I haven't read it yet.
I keep a paper journal, though I don't write in in every day, or even on a regular basis. One of the ways I keep from making myself feel guilty is to let myself write in it whenever I want, rather than making myself write every day. I also have added a lot of stuff so that it is half scrapbook, half journal. I think it would be fun to read 100 years from now (at least it would be to me, if I found one like it). :) |
| KJD |
Posted - Jun 09 2006 : 11:55:59 AM
In the Edith Holden Country Diaries series, there's a 3rd one called Cookery Notes - mostly recipes, but includes the drawings and quotes of the Edwardian Lady.
A wonderful book, not exactly a diary or journal, but a true story about a woman called Harriet Potter in early Texas. The book is called Love is a Wild Assault by Elithe Hamilton Kirkland. I understand there are copies of Harriet Potter's own journal from which this book was written, to be found. Anyway, this woman's story is unbelievable - she has been called, "The bravest woman in the Republic of Texas". |
| ashcordes |
Posted - Jun 08 2006 : 11:34:59 AM
Nancy, I saw on another post that you ordered the "Diary of Mattie Spenser" by Sandra Dallas. Have you read that yet? I got that at the library and read it about 3 years ago and LOVED it! I love reading diary/journal type books and this one had me hooked so much I almost cried when I had it finished, I didn't want it to end! |
| YiberryYadeeKarin |
Posted - Jun 08 2006 : 08:19:52 AM
"Karin, I will check out the " little things in a big country", what time period did this cover?
NANCY JO"
Actually, Nancy, it's a recent day journal. It's set around Augusta, Montana -- east side of the Montana Rockies. It doesn't fit into the yester year category but is still a wonderful book.
Enjoy! Karin |
| Amie C. |
Posted - Jun 08 2006 : 06:20:53 AM
Nancy,
I didn't want to mention LM Montgomery's journals on the Anne thread because they are so sad. If you read the very last entries, they are just heartbreaking. She says in the first volume that she deliberately channels all her unhappiness into the journals (not having any living confidant) and keeps it out of her published writing because she wants to spread "optimism and sunshine", not infect others with her misery. The posters about Anne of Green Gables all seemed to love Anne for that reason, and I didn't want to be the killjoy. Wait, I'm doing it here! Oh well, she did want her journals to be published after her death.
amie |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jun 08 2006 : 04:47:13 AM
Rhonda
Wow, not only a fellow garage sale girl, but reader too. Always looking when at garage sales for books. I have read some of Anne Morrow but was not aware that she had written volumes. Will look into getting the country diary's. Speaking of garage sales, another weekend coming up!
NANCY JO |
| abbasgurl |
Posted - Jun 07 2006 : 7:35:03 PM
Nancy,
I second a vote for "The Country Diarys"...also Anne Morrow Lindbergh kept a journal most of her life. I have about six of the volumes-her college days/courtship by Charles Lindberg-through her later years. She was a facinating person. Most people remember the kidnapping of the Lindbergh's first son, but Anne was an accomplished aviator, writer/poet and even an ambassador to Germany before the war. She recently passed away and I believe one of her daughters wrote/is writing a book about her later years.
The other person(s) I find facinating are the Bronte sisters/brother/Father. I'm not sure if they have journals available, but many, many books were written about their lives on the English moors. Their novels also give great insight to their lives.
Rhonda
...and I will sing at the top of my lungs, and I will dance, even if I'm the only one! |
| EnchantedWoodsGirl |
Posted - Jun 07 2006 : 6:49:18 PM
The Anne Morrow book I like is the one that covers the kidnapping and death of her son, it is so real and gripping you feel like you are in her life.
Also, Virginia Wolf - eww and before I forget A Year in the Maine Woods by Bernd Heinrich and also a great book I discovered in a bookstore called The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow -The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley - I will keep scouring my shelves for more good reads!
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jun 07 2006 : 6:38:32 PM
Jeannie,
Those sound really good too, I printed off all the suggestions,wow E, I won't be at a loss for something to read for awhile.
NANCY JO |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jun 07 2006 : 3:02:44 PM
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 by Frances Anne Kemble. This is a wonderul, real journal of a woman who moved to the deep south in the plantation of pre-civil war days.
Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady also has a second book called The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady, both by Edith Holden. These are both beautiful.
Pioneer Women - Voices from the Kansas Frontier....exceprts from diaries from the women who moved into the prairie. By Joanna L. Stratton
Remember Me - Women and Their Friendship Quilts contains journal entires from women who made quilts in the 1800's. Author Linda Otto Lipsett.
Peace |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jun 07 2006 : 2:45:57 PM
Annie c,
Yes I read the midwifes tales, wasn't that good? i might just have to re-read that one at some point. I had no idea that L.M. MONTGOMERY at wriiten journals, boy they muct be interestin. Why did you then not want to add to the ANNE postings? Maybe you just knew to much about the real thing.
Karin, I will check out the " little things in a big country", what time period did this cover?
Thanks girls
NANCY JO |
| YiberryYadeeKarin |
Posted - Jun 07 2006 : 2:22:32 PM
Nancy,
I LOVE this book, by Hannah Hinchman: "Little Things in a Big Country: An Artist and Her Dog on the Rocky Mountain Front". I think the text is handwritten (and reprinted, of course) and is full of her sketches and reflections of her life and where she lives. It's a beautiful book, about the simple things in life.
Karin
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jun 07 2006 : 1:09:12 PM
Kathy
well I guess in my book dreams I would love to come across a journal someone had written long ago, but will probably have to settle for something found and printed. some of the old civil war journals or pioneer journals written by women. I read the ANNE MORROW book a while back, and since you reminded me of it I had to get up and go see what I had done with it. FOUND IT!
NANCY JO |
| Amie C. |
Posted - Jun 07 2006 : 1:00:16 PM
Have you read "A Midwife's Tale" by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich? It's based on the journal of a rural New England midwife in the 1790s. Lots of commentary on family life, medicine, and local politics at the time. The author does a great job. Along with all the history, you really get a sense of the midwife, Martha Ballard, as a character. Its a good (true) story, full of family and neighborhood intrique.
Also, I just finished reading the selected journals of LM Montgomery (yes, the woman who wrote the Anne of Green Gables books). She kept a journal throughout most of her life, and the published books add up to FIVE volumes, taking her from 14 to 60 something. It's not a very happy life (which is why I didn't chip in on the recent thread about AGG) but it's a fascinating thing to read, just for the record of changing times (1880s-1940s). She's a great narrator, of course, and you can see that much of the material in her books is drawn from the journals almost verbatim.
Amie |
| EnchantedWoodsGirl |
Posted - Jun 07 2006 : 12:58:14 PM
Nancy, do you mean written in their handwriting or just diary type entries. If you mean diary type entries Anne Morrow Lindburgh (sp) is very good, so is Gladys Taber (thing you may have her already) also Annie Dillard - will have to check my shelves to see what else.
You are like me with the books - mine have to be resorted they are piling up wayyy to high and could hurt someone if they fall lol!
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jun 07 2006 : 12:48:21 PM
Libbie,
Thanks, I printed off the info and will look them up. can't have to many books, I hope!! because I keep ordering them.
NANCY JO |
| Libbie |
Posted - Jun 07 2006 : 11:54:53 AM
Nancy - these are some of my favorite reads! I LOVE "The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady" by Edith Holden and "Muriel Foster's Fishing Diary." Muriel Foster's is AMAZING. Also, Hannah Hinchman is a big proponent of the illustrated/illuminated journal, and any of her books are absolutely gorgeous - a bit "how-to" and a bit of journal, while the other two are strictly journal entries.
Fun!
XOXO, Libbie
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe |
