{"product_id":"daughter-of-boston-the-extraordinary-diary-of-a-nineteenthcentury-woman-caroline-healey-dall-9780807050347","title":"Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth-century Woman  Caroline Healey Dall","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Journal is my safety valve-and it is well  that I can thus rid myself of my superfluous steam . . . I trust posterity will remember this  should it ever be gratified by a glimpse at these pages.  In the nineteenth century  Boston was well known as a center for intellectual ferment. Amidst the popular lecturing of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the discussion groups led by Margaret Fuller sat a remarkable young woman  Caroline Healey Dall (1822-1912): Transcendentalist  early feminist  writer  reformer  and-perhaps most importantly-active diarist.  Dall kept a diary for seventy-five years.She captured in it all the fascinating details of her sometimes agonizing personal life  but she also wrote about all the major figures who surrounded her-Elizabeth Peabody  Louisa May Alcott  Henry David Thoreau  William Lloyd Garrison  Ralph Waldo Emerson  and countless others. Her diary  filling forty-five volumes in all  is perhaps the longest running diary ever written by any American and the most complete account available of a nineteenth-century womans life.  Daughter of Boston is a selection of the best from Dalls immense diary  woven together with biographical narrative. The citys celebrations  mob scenes  poverty-ridden neighborhoods  lectures  and exhibits are described with great wit and insight. She also writes colorfully about people whose names never made it into the history books-wives and mothers  fugitives  servants  children  starving ministers  single women looking for outlets for their ambitions  and working people of all ages. Dall constantly strove to make sense of her personal troubles and failures  so the diary also functioned as the perfect vehicle for working out the lessons she believed these troubles were meant to teach.  Daughter of Boston is a completely original and important book: both a significant document of social history and a lively  vivid account of one womans life and thoughts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647587377205,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807050342","price":26.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807050347.jpg?v=1781694434","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/daughter-of-boston-the-extraordinary-diary-of-a-nineteenthcentury-woman-caroline-healey-dall-9780807050347","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}