This Is the Life The Diary of Jennie McLeod

This Is the Life paints a vivid picture of the life and times of Jennie McLeod a 20th-century college girl from the mill town of Clinton Massachusetts. Author Leslie Perrin Wilson presents Jennie and her world through careful research contextual narrative and a richly annotated transcription of her 1914-1918 diary. Jennies distinctive personality her family friends studies and aspirations along with the presence of larger events in the background--world war and womans suffrage in particular--all come to life on the pages of this book.