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"On Feb. 24, 1912, my parents were made happy by the arrival of a second little daughter. Of those first years I remember very little. One spring day in March, when I was five years old, I walked to school with my sister. I remember wearing a red poplin dress. In the evening we walked home, but in the opposite direction, for my parents had moved that day to another farm, the first farm they ever owned . . ."This collection of writings by and about Clara Yoder Miller has been gathered by her children and grandchildren, in honor of her ninety-ninth birthday.
Written during her teenage years, the diaries serve as a confessional by which she seeks to improve her moral character through imploring God to give her the strength to overcome her sins. Daily life is described, but mainly as a way to assess her shortcomings. The diaries are not continuous, but the periods of time covered contain almost daily entries.
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Zusammenfassung: Audiovisual testimony of a Holocaust survivor. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences
' The relationship between my grandmother and her mother was very important and indeed crucial to her childhood and the very early days of her writing ... So, to have more insight into this particular aspect of my grandmother's early life is very valuable.' Mathew Prichard, Agatha Christie's grandson Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath are three of our most famous authors. For the first time this book tells in full the story of the remarkable mothers who shaped them. Julia Stephen, Clara Miller and Aurelia Plath were fascinating women in their own rights, and their relationships with their daughters were exceptional; they profoundly influenced the writers' lives, literature and attitude to feminism. Too often in the past Virginia, Agatha and Sylvia have been defined by their lovers – Mothers of the Mind redresses the balance by charting the complex, often contradictory, bond between mother and daughter. Drawing on previously unpublished sources from archives around the world and accounts from family and friends of the women, this book offers a new perspective on these iconic authors.
The fourth volume in Methuen Drama's series of the definitive works of Arthur Miller.