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| This page contains information about books on which I have worked during the last decade. You can order each book by linking to its publisher via this site. If you'd like, click on the appropriate icon at left to read more about several of these books. To send me an e-mail message, click on: suzanne.bunkers@mnsu.edu To return to the MSU home page, click on: www.mnsu.edu/supersite/ DIARIES OF GIRLS AND WOMEN: A MIDWESTERN SAMPLER (2001) is based on my study of unpublished diaries by 19th and 20th century girls and women in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. This book will contain excerpts from forty-seven individuals' diaries written from approximately 1840 to the present, featuring diaries grouped chronologically and thematically into four chapters, entitled: "American Girls," "Coming of Age," "Journeys," and "Home, Work, Family." This book is under contract and in production with the University of Wisconsin Press; the book was published in cloth and paperback editions in May 2001. To read an excerpt from the introduction to the book, click on "Sampler" at left. To learn more about the book itself, click on the links below: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography Diaries of Girls and Women: ordering information and sample pages & photographs If you would like to read a detailed review of Diaries of Girls and Women: A Midwestern American Sampler, written by Professor Karen L. Kilcup, please click on this URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/biography/v024/24.4kilcup.html IN SEARCH OF SUSANNA (1996)
is the intergenerational story of my great-great-grandmother
Susanna Simmerl Youngblut and myself. This book traces my process of unraveling
family secrets and tracing ancestral lines, both in Luxembourg and in the United
States. It interweaves my story with that of my great-great-grandmother, Susanna, as
our lives and those of our descendants unfold. This auto/biography was published as
part of the University of Iowa Press's Singular Lives Series. To order a copy of IN SEARCH OF SUSANNA (1996), please contact the publisher: INSCRIBING THE DAILY: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON WOMEN'S DIARIES (1996(1996) is a collection of fifteen essays, each of which explores an aspect of studying diaries written by women. I co-edited this collection, which focuses on published and unpublished diaries written by women in Great Britain and the United States. I also contributed an essay, "Diaries and Dysfunctional Families," based on my study of the mother/daughter diaries of Emily and Sarah Gillespie of Manchester, IA. "All Will Yet Be Well": The Diary of Sarah Gillespie Huftalen, 1873-1952 (1993). Sarah Gillespie Huftalen grew up on a farm outside Manchester, Iowa. She began teaching country school as a teenager and eventually taught for over fifty years in Iowa's rural schools. Sarah began keeping a diary as a little girl, and she continued writing in it for more than three-quarters of a century. This book was published as part of the University of Iowa Press's Burr Oak series. To order a copy of this diary, which I edited for publication, please contact the University of Iowa Press: http://www.uiowa.edu/~uipress/bunallwil.htm If you'd like to read a review of the diary, click on this URL: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tovo/auto/fall/research/robinson.html I also edited Sarah Gillespie's childhood diary entries as part of a series of books for middle-school readers, published by Capstone Press. To learn more about the book, visit this URL: http://www.capstone-press.com/viewbook.cfm?rid=1574 You can learn more about the entire Capstone series, entitled "Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs," at this URL: http://www.capstone-press.com/viewseries.cfm?rid=951 In addition to editing Sarah's childhood diary for the series, I served as consultant and provided a general introduction for the series. As Capstone Press notes, "This series explores and supports the standards under "The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage," as required by the National Standards for History." THE DIARY OF CAROLINE SEABURY, 1854-1863 (1991). Caroline Seabury was a young schoolteacher from Massachusetts when she set out for Columbus, Mississippi, in autumn 1854 to teach at the Columbus Female Academy. She remained there, teaching French and Shakespeare, until two years after the Civil War began in 1861. After losing her teaching position because she was a Northerner, Caroline Seabury tutored the daughters of the owner of Waverley Plantation near Columbus. Then, in August 1863, she devised a daring plan that involved breaking through Confederate Army lines to return to the North. The original manuscript of diary of Caroline Seabury is housed at the Minnesota Historical Society; the scholarly edition that I edited is available from the University of Wisconsin Press as part of Bill Andrews' series on American Autobiography: http://sites.unc.edu/~andrews The Diary of Caroline Seabury: ordering information and sample pages & photographs To return to the English Department's home page, click on: http://www.mnsu.edu/dept/english/ To return to MSU employees' web page listings, click on: http://www.mnsu.edu/welcome3/Directories/Employees.html
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