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• The University of Virginia Press is proud to add the Massachusetts Historical Society to our list of distribution partners. Beginning immediately, we will be the exclusive distributor of several new titles and backlist from the society’s fine selection of books. |
Making available what is perhaps the longest-running diary in existence, Selected Journals of Caroline Healey Dall, 1838-1855 offers what arguably is the most complete account we have of a nineteenth-century American woman’s life. Dall (1822-1912), a participant in the transcendentalist, abolitionist, women’s rights, and social science movements, filled her journals with intelligent reflections and keen analysis of her world. Beginning with her adolescence at Beacon Hill, the journals address a wide range of topics covering some three-quarters of a century, including family and social rituals and interactions; the routines of “woman’s work”; illnesses, both physical and mental, and their treatment; examples of cross-class and cross-race relations; and the larger world of business, politics, literature, reform, war, religion, and science. In detailing Dall’s emotional, intellectual, and spiritual development, the journals also convey a compelling personal story. Helen R. Deese is Caroline Healey Dall Editor for the Massachusetts Historical Society, Professor of English Emerita at Tennessee Technological University, and the editor of Jones Very: The Complete Poems. |
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