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EMMA'S WORLD by Shirley Blotnick Moscow During her lifetime, Emma Sargent Barbour blazed no frontier in geography or science, penned no great book, inspired no immortal art or cause. She grew up, married and died within a few city blocks of the house in which she had been born. Emma, in short, was like most of us. However, from the years of 1854 until 1868, Emma collected the letters she received from friends and relatives throughout the United States. Over one hundred years later, these letters have been lovingly woven into a rare, intimate glimpse inside the private lives of ordinary Americans during an extraordinary historical era. The collected correspondence and literate narrative reflect the passions and problems, the fads, fun and frustrations of everyday life as it was lived in the middle of the nineteenth century. Emma's letters are a testimony to life's perpetual celebrations and sorrows, poignant, unselfconscious confessions and observations flashed intact across decades of change detailing Emma's world for the reader of today.
"A charming and poignant collection of letters... immensely interesting as social history...and as a document in the history of adolescence." — Kirkus Reviews "Offer
homely, often spirited insights into the everyday lives of Civil War
women...giving "An intimate portrait of life just prior to and during the Civil War."— Library Journal
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