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The diary of Horace C. Lee, 1841-1842: (Part 1).(Critical essay)
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Early American Studies
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March 22, 2008
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In the diary of Horace C. Lee, 1841-42, a young dry goods clerk in Springfield, Massachusetts, explores both his own emerging ideals as he grows into adulthood and also the complex gender, religious, social, and economic dynamics of a midsize New England town as it develops into a city. (1) The sixteen and a half months recorded by Lee in this diary are for him a unique period of transition between childhood and adulthood. His journal therefore provides an intimate, first-person account of adolescent tensions between responsibilities to family and obligations to friends, career and recreation, and courtship and camaraderie. Scratched across the pages of the diary are the traces ...
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