“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!”
Lucy Larcom: Memoirs of a Mill Girl in Lowell
Series: Dear Diary
An open book of teenage experiences—from scrapbooks, sketchbooks and journals to unrecorded memories.
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‘I Am 13 Years Old Today’: Iowan Teen Diaries, 1872-1884
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.
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Brooklyn Poem Prodigy
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).
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“I Was a Nazi and Here’s Why”: The New Yorker on Melita Maschmann’s Memoir
In Teenage, portraits of a four emblematic youth from history are woven into the larger narrative about the emergence of youth culture.
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Barbara Newhall Follett, Vanished Novelist
Barbara Newhall Follett published her first novel The House Without Windows, at the age of 12.
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That Was The Summer That Changed My Life
1997, NSW, Australia, the day after my thirteenth birthday.
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The Last Letter of Thomas Hiliker
“The jury deliberated for about ten minutes, during which time Hiliker was in great agitation.
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Iseult Gonne
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.
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Young Sylvia
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.
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Stayfree Carefree
Periods. Every teenage girl has to deal. Plenty of companies are here to help, with some cringe-inducing advertising.