A Narrative of Crisis: Nancy Emerson's Diary and Healing through Writing.

Nancy Emerson, a middle-class white woman who lived with her brother's family in Augusta County, Virginia, kept a diary intermittently between May 1862 and November 1864. Emerson's diary can be defined as a narrative of crisis, generated to respond to, reduce, contain, and mitigate trauma due to the...

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Published in:	Mississippi Quarterly Vol. 76; no. 3; pp. 379 - 401
Main Author:	Özkan, Hediye
Format:	Article
Published:	Johns Hopkins University Press 2024
Subjects:	American Civil War, 1861-1865 Prayer meetings Diary (Literary form) Life writing Middle class Bereavement Brothers
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