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''Totally addictive.''
- Alice Loxton, The Daily Telegraph
''An intriguing, highly snackable guide to women''s experiences.''
- Independent
''A modern classic.''
- Alison Weir, author and historian
''The sort of book you return to again and again.''
- Tracy Borman, author and historian
A captivating collection of daily extracts from women''s diaries.
Organised around the calendar year, in this engaging anthology 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, describe their first experiences with sex, and Anne Lister (TV''s Gentleman Jack) in eighteenth-century Yorkshire and Alice Walker in twentieth-century California both explore their love affairs with women. It looks back over four centuries to discover how women''s experience - of men and children, sex and shopping, work and the natural world - has changed down the years. And, of course, how it hasn''t.
With several selections for each day, this book is a fascinating record of how women were thinking, feeling and reacting to historical events: Virginia Woolf relishes her new haircut and Oprah Winfrey meditates on her career, Emilie Davis chronicles the death of Abraham Lincoln and a teenage Ma Yan yearns for education in poverty-stricken China. Secret Voices contains a rich mix of well-known diarists and less familiar ones, and often the voices echoing down the centuries sound eerily familiar today.
FAQs
"What is Secret Voices about?
Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries collects daily diary extracts from women across four centuries, arranged by date from 1 January to 31 December. It shows how women’s lives, loves and work have changed, and how they haven’t.
Whose diaries are in Secret Voices?
Diarists include Lady Anne Clifford, Anne Lister, Anne Frank, Virginia Woolf, Joan Wyndham, Alice Walker and Oprah Winfrey, alongside lesser-known voices such as Ma Yan, a teenage diarist in rural China.
Who is Sarah Gristwood?
Sarah Gristwood is a historian, journalist and bestselling author of books including Blood Sisters, Arbella and The Tudors in Love. She also edited the anthology Celebrating Women.
Is Secret Voices available in paperback?
Yes. This is the new paperback edition, published by Batsford in October 2026, following the hardback in 2024. Its one-entry-a-day format makes it a lovely bedside book or gift.
Where is Chapters Bookstore located?
Chapters Bookstore is in the Ivy Exchange on Parnell Street, Dublin 1. We’re open seven days a week, from 9am to 6pm on most days and until 7pm on Thursdays and Fridays."
- Publisher Name:Batsford
- ISBN: 9781837330720
- Author:Gristwood, Sarah
- Publication Date:2026-10-01
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