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Sender: jhp7@email.byu.edu To: H-OIEAHC@H-NET.MSU.EDU X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Delivered-to: H-OIEAHC@H-NET.MSU.EDU Original-recipient: rfc822;saillant@vmh.cc.wmich.edu Does anyone know of any published repudiation of the diary of Hety Shepard? It was published in 1894 in the New England Magazine as "A Puritan Maiden's Diary" and purports to have been written by an 18-year-old girl in 1675. It is reproduced in an online primary documents database, North American Women's Letters and Diaries, and one of my students wants to use it as a source in a research paper. Looking it over, however, I am convinced that it is a 19th century invention. It is riddled with anachronisms, one of the most glaring of which is the diarist's exact quotation of Benjamin Church's description of Philip (Metacom) years before Church's account was written or published. I could not find any mention of the diary in the article index, America: History and Life, and the few mentions of it that showed up on a general internet search seem to accept it as genuine. Help? Jenny Hale Pulsipher Assistant Professor, History Dept. Brigham Young University 404 KMB (801)422-3286 jenny_pulsipher@byu.edu
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