Emily French

Emily

The Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman

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Oh how I do wish I could have a little help in maintaining my home. I shall dread the cold winter so much. I don't have very good success getting employment, wrote Emily French in her diary in 1890. Emily was recently divorced but received no alimony or child support. She worked as a laundress, cleaning woman, and nurse, first in the farming community of Elbert, Colorado, then in the growing city of Denver, the mining town of Dake, and back into Denver. Emily's diary discloses an example of the desperate lives lived by many. Having enough money and food is a source of constant anxiety, but her deepest fears center on the loss of family and of… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8032-6861-6
EAN: 9780803268616
Produktnummer: 1341753
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1987
Seitenangabe: 166 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.1 cm 236 g
Gewicht: 236

Über den Autor

Janet Lecompte, who lives in Colorado Springs, is the author of Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn: The Upper Arkansas, 1832-1856 (1978), Rebellion in Rio Arriba, 1837 (1985), and many articles about the Old West.