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Dear Diary, pt 1: Secrets Women Keep

May 29, 202438 minEp. 244
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Episode description

What do 400 years-worth of women's published diaries tell us about the kinds of secrets and feelings we keep to ourselves? From a 16th-century spiritualist to the diaries of Anne Frank and Ma Yan, writer Sarah Gristwood reveals the everyday histories they document, the age-old frustrations they share and why she's a proponent of hanging onto your old journals. (Yes, even the embarrassing ones!) Highlights include: writing in code, pie for dinner, peach lingerie and notes to future selves.

Sarah's new anthology is Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries.


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