"Dearest Clara" family letters with Gail Zona
About this episode
Gail Zona discusses her book 'Dearest Clara', which transcribes family letters from the 19th century, highlighting the lives of women during that time.
Life for women in 19th century USA was not easy. Gail Zona has transcribed family letters and turned them into a book "Dearest Clara". We talk about the letters themselves, the writers (her 2 x great grandmother Nell Nichols and sisters Clara and Alice, the life they lived (a hard and quite restrictive one) and the world they lived in with society's expectations of them including the effects of coverture.
People in this episode
Host: Emma Cox
Guest: Gail Zona
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Dearest Clara
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