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Diaries etc.
Jan. 18th, 2011 11:52 pmIt turns out that, no, the local museum does not have any diaries written by girls between 1890 and 1910. But it does have a simply splendid collection of girls' diaries from the thirties and forties!
Curses, curses, curses! Why couldn't I have asked this question a year ago when I could have changed the focus of my project? An untapped and presumably voluminous primary source!
Oh well. I don't think there was any particularly exciting girls' lit being published in the thirties and forties. No, wait, Caddie Woodlawn - who was rather more important to me than Anne of Green Gables - and Blue Willow, which I love...
Oh, curses.
(I still wouldn't call the thirties and forties any kind of turning point in children's literature. Right? Right?)
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Also, through the magic of interlibrary loan the library has gotten me The House Without Windows. But it - like its author before it - has disappeared.
Curses, curses, curses! Why couldn't I have asked this question a year ago when I could have changed the focus of my project? An untapped and presumably voluminous primary source!
Oh well. I don't think there was any particularly exciting girls' lit being published in the thirties and forties. No, wait, Caddie Woodlawn - who was rather more important to me than Anne of Green Gables - and Blue Willow, which I love...
Oh, curses.
(I still wouldn't call the thirties and forties any kind of turning point in children's literature. Right? Right?)
***
Also, through the magic of interlibrary loan the library has gotten me The House Without Windows. But it - like its author before it - has disappeared.
