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Author Graham, Adeline, 1864-1934.

Title Adeline and Julia : growing up in Michigan and on the Kansas frontier : diaries from 19th-century America / edited by Janet L. Coryell and Robert C. Myers ; [introduction by Susan Armitage]
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 237 pages) : illustrations
Contents pt. 1. Growing up in Michigan : the diary of Adeline Graham -- pt. 2. Julia Graham's Kansas adventure : the diary of Julia Graham
Summary The keeping of journals and diaries became an almost everyday pastime for many Americans in the nineteenth century. Adeline and Julia Graham, two young women from Berrien Springs, Michigan, were both drawn to this activity, writing about the daily events in their lives, as well as their ''grand adventures.'' These are fascinating, deeply personal accounts that provide an insight into the thoughts and motivation of two sisters who lived more than a century ago. Adeline began keeping a diary when she was sixteen, from mid-1880 through mid-1884; through it we see a young woman coming of age in t
Notes Annotated diaries of two young sisters, Adeline and Julia Graham, written during their adolescent years growing up in Berrien Springs, Michigan in the 1880s. Also includes Julia's diary from the year she spent homesteading with three other young women on the Kansas frontier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Graham, Adeline, 1864-1934 -- Diaries
Graham, Julia, 1862-1900 -- Diaries
SUBJECT Graham, Adeline, 1864-1934 fast
Graham, Julia, 1862-1900 fast
Subject Sisters -- Michigan -- Berrien Springs -- Diaries
Young women -- Michigan -- Berrien Springs -- Diaries
Frontier and pioneer life -- Michigan -- Berrien Springs
Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas -- Greeley County
Young women -- Kansas -- Greeley County -- Diaries
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Frontier and pioneer life
Manners and customs
Sisters
Young women
SUBJECT Berrien Springs (Mich.) -- Biography
Berrien Springs (Mich.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Greeley County (Kan.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Subject Kansas -- Greeley County
Michigan -- Berrien Springs
Genre/Form Biographies
Diaries
Form Electronic book
Author Graham, Julia, 1862-1900.
Coryell, Janet L., 1955-
Myers, Robert C
LC no. 99050969
ISBN 9780870139048
0870139045
Other Titles Adeline & Julia