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Series: Dear Diary

An open book of teenage experiences—from scrapbooks, sketchbooks and journals to unrecorded memories.

  • May 23, 2014

    Lucy Larcom: Memoirs of a Mill Girl in Lowell

    BY Danielle Beeber

    “Oh, what questionings of fate, and freedom, and how evil came, and what death is, and what the life to come, passed to and fro among these girls!”

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • November 14, 2013

    ‘I Am 13 Years Old Today’: Iowan Teen Diaries, 1872-1884

    BY Lucas Habte

    Teens and diaries have gone hand in hand much longer than you may think — the following excepts are from the journals of young people from Iowa in the years leading up to the turn of the 20th century.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • August 23, 2013

    Brooklyn Poem Prodigy

    BY Monika Zaleska

    Brooklyn native Nathalia Crane was just nine years old when she published her first poem in The New York Sun (they thought they were publishing an adult).

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • June 4, 2013

    “I Was a Nazi and Here’s Why”: The New Yorker on Melita Maschmann’s Memoir

    BY Reva Goldberg

    In Teenage, portraits of a four emblematic youth from history are woven into the larger narrative about the emergence of youth culture.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • March 1, 2013

    Barbara Newhall Follett, Vanished Novelist

    BY Claire Lucido

    Barbara Newhall Follett published her first novel The House Without Windows, at the age of 12.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • December 3, 2012

    That Was The Summer That Changed My Life

    BY zoe coombs marr

    1997, NSW, Australia, the day after my thirteenth birthday.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • October 29, 2012

    The Last Letter of Thomas Hiliker

    BY Claire Lucido

    “The jury deliberated for about ten minutes, during which time Hiliker was in great agitation.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • September 28, 2012

    Iseult Gonne

    BY Claire Lucido

    Iseult Gonne (6 August 1894 – 22 March 1954) was conceived in the mausoleum of her late brother in an attempt by her parents to reincarnate their dead, still adored infant son.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • July 10, 2012

    Young Sylvia

    BY Teenage Editor

    Sylvia Plath began keeping a journal at age eleven and continued to keep one through her teenage years and until her death at the age of thirty.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • June 19, 2012

    Stayfree Carefree

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Periods. Every teenage girl has to deal. Plenty of companies are here to help, with some cringe-inducing advertising.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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