Secret Voices

<b>A fascinating and important collection of extracts from women’'s diaries through the centuries, including such iconic voices as Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Frank, with a selection of pieces for every day of the year.</b><br><br>Organized around the calendar year, in this engaging anthology, now in paperback with a beautifully illustrated new cover, you’ll find Lady Anne Clifford in the seventeenth century and Loran Hurnscot in the twentieth both stoically recording the demands of an unreasonable husband; Joan Wyndham and Anne Frank, at much the same time, but in wildly different settings, describing their first experiences with sex; and Anne Lister (TV’s <i>Gentleman Jack</i>) in eighteenth-century Yorkshire exploring her love affairs with women alongside Alice Walker in twentieth-century California.<br><br><br>“Totally addictive.”<br>– Alice Loxton, <i>The Daily Telegraph</i><br><br>“An intriguing, highly snackable guide to women’s experiences.”<br>– <i>The Independent</i><br><br>“A modern classic.”<br>– Alison Weir, author and historian<br><br>“The sort of book you return to again and again.”<br>– Tracy Borman, author and historian