Synopses & Reviews
A rare view of colonial life from a bright and sensitive 12 year old girl from Nova Scotia, who was sent to Boston in 1770 by her parents to be educated in Boston schools. The diary was not published until 1894 when it was issued with notes and an introduction by Alice Morse Earle.
Synopsis
A young girl's diary from Colonial days. A rare view of colonial life from a bright and sensitive twelve-year-old, Anna Green Winslow, from Nova Scotia, who was sent to Boston in 1770 by her parents to be educated in Boston Schools. This real diary was not published until 1894 when it was issued with notes and an introduction by Alice Morse Earle.
About the Author
ALICE MORSE EARLE (1851-1911) was a popular writer of the Colonial Revival movement. She was the author of seventeen books, many of them about daily life in early America, especially in New England. Thanks to her meticulous research and the timelessness of her writing, a number of these books are still in print. VIRGINIA LOPEZ BEGG is a landscape historian and designer, and author of numerous articles about the role of women in shaping the American landscape, particularly through the garden literature of the 1860-1940 period.