Agnes Hannah Tennant的论文,Nee Gairdner,1864- 1947年,Diarist:Alexandra Healey的Blogpost

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比阅读别人的日记更令人兴奋。总是感觉有些秘密 - 就像您偷偷进入某人的房间并从他们的桌子上偷偷摸摸一样。那时我会撒谎,如果我说当我发现作为格拉斯哥大学档案服务的志愿者时,我将没有得到一些期待,我将帮助改进主要由个人日记组成的收藏的目录。188足球比分直播网站Nee Gairdner的Agnes Hannah Tennant的论文在1970年代中期由侄子捐赠给了档案,自从他们到达以来就可以观看。存在一个基本的目录,在它们到达后不久就创建了,并与银行家查尔斯·盖尔德纳(Charles Gairdner)和查尔斯·坦南特(Charles Tennant&Son)的化学品家族建立了暂定联系。但是,这些都没有得到验证,我迫不及待地想潜入美丽的皮革绑定卷,有些用纪念品凸出,以创建改进的目录。

关于日记的第一件事是内容的细节。在1881年至1885年之间结婚前在格拉斯哥创建的最早的五卷每天揭示了艾格尼丝的活动。很少有人会认为在日记条目中值得一提的是浴缸,但是正是这种细节赋予了这种价值。这些条目不仅包括维多利亚时代的年轻未婚妇女的传统活动,例如鲜花布置,访问教堂和唱歌,还包括她家人的财富的线索,例如去欧洲的旅行以及她参加许多球。日记还记录了她的个人支出和阅读,并结合了对她的生活的详细概述。插入了许多日记的前后的松散围栏不仅为重要事件和日期提供了有用的指针,而且还吸引了其他内容,例如她的舞蹈伙伴的名字。这位富有,受人尊敬的年轻女子描述了她相当保留的聚会,“非常非常好”的聚会被保留在异常特殊的场合(1885年),这不足为奇。但是,当然,她不止一次地提到跳舞直到凌晨3点感到惊讶!

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其余的四个日记涵盖了1887 - 1924年,在他们的页面上,观点和位置从格拉斯哥的一名合格的年轻女子变成了英格兰东南部的一名已婚妇女和母亲。Married now to William Augustus Tennant, (or ‘Will’ as he appears in the diaries), the first noticeable gap in Agnes’ daily entries coincides with the birth of her first son, Earnest William Dalrymple Tennant in May 1887. The following entry appears after nearly two weeks of silence; ‘Got on to the sofa for the first time, very shaky in my legs but feel wonderfully well. The wee son is very sweet’ (1887). Although the late night dancing is less frequent in the later volumes, evidence of Agnes’ continued socialising and travel abounds, up to and including her sixty-first year in 1924. By this point in her life Agnes had lost a son, Bunny, to the First World War and become a grandmother. The enclosures for these later diaries include colourful theatre programmes, copious calling cards and letters from her family.

在为该系列的目录制作目录时,我们能够发掘出一个我们一开始几乎不知道的角色。Census information confirmed that Agnes was indeed the daughter of Charles Gairdner, whose papers are also held at GUAS, and that she died in Saffron Walden in 1947 at the age of 83. We learnt that her husband worked for the family firm, Tennant & Son’s chemicals, the history of which her son Ernest went on to write and publish. We were also able to establish a direct link to the University, finding a record in the archive of Agnes and her sister Edith’s attendance at the格拉斯哥高等教育协会的妇女在1878年至1879年之间。能够开始确定地将艾格尼丝(Agnes)置于格拉斯哥及其他地区的生活环境中,这确实是很有意义的。

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我希望这些详细且独特的主要资源的改进在线目录将鼓励其他人进一步调查。在其创作过程中,我几乎没有刮过艾格尼丝(Agnes)丰富的社交和家庭生活的表面,只能瞥见这些卷中迷人的潜力。Part of the collection’s value lies in its originating at the end of an era in which the voices of women as daughters, wives and mothers were often silenced, yet each diary, crammed full of names, addresses and activities, provides an extraordinarily rich snapshot of a year in Agnes’ life. I sincerely hope that others are inspired to hear more of what Agnes has to say and unlock the potential which lies between these pages.

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