Susan Emma Dennis's (Aunt Emma) Journal

Susan Emma Dennis's (Aunt Emma) Journal

Emma’s diaries, which mostly serve to record to her everyday routine and chores, allow for a peer into the mundanity of motherly duties and endless responsibilities of domestic life. Relatable to most, she frequently wrote complaining of wash day, especially when little visitors were staying at the home.

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Wylie House Museum

May 2018