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		In an old family bible I discovered that Jacob Breyrogel was born in 1748, four years after his family emigrated from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania.
		There was an orchard of three hundred apple trees, forty early Richmond cherry trees, a garden with rows and rows of red and white currants, and a row of rhubarb which could have furnished pies for the neighborhood.
		An important event for members of the Dunkard Church was the annual "love Feast", which was held each year at the Yellow Creek Church, so called because it was located near that stream.
	barklowfamily.homestead.com /Diary.html (16389 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - News Shopper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Margaret Forster presents the edited diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the 20th Century.
		A triumph of resolution and evocation, this is a beautifully observed story of an ordinary woman's life a narrative where every word rings true.
		As the story is told from her point of view you do get drawn to side with her on the issues and situations that arise but yet, from time to time, I did feel I was not on her side and she was a spoilt child.
	www.newsshopper.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=497703 (267 words)

	Dear diary. Woke up. World War I started by Jane Hurley \| New Zealand Listener
		DIARY OF AN ORDINARY WOMAN, by Margaret Forster (Chatto & Windus, $64.95).
		If George is killed, Millie tells her diary, she hopes it will be returned with his Special Effects and then she will "keep it as a memento of him".
		Millicent's diaries go on to span the breadth of a century, all with that same tincture of clear thinking and transparent, but occasionally temper-ridden, honesty.
	www.listener.co.nz /printable,66.sm (492 words)

	Random House of Canada Limited \| Academic Type (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Diary of An Ordinary Woman by Margaret Forster
		Millicent King may seem to be an “ordinary” woman — but she lives through the main events of the 20th century.
		Presented as the “edited” journal of a real-life woman who was born in 1901 and died in 1995, she starts her diary at the age of 13 on the eve of the Great War.
	www.randomhouse.ca /academictype/gender.html (898 words)

	Forthcoming Archive
		An exploration of the sari as a living garment rather than just a textile, and a fascinating portrait of the life of women in contemporary India.
		An alternative route to general theories of globalization, sampling the historical situations of a range of nation-states, and attempting to move beyond them.
		An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away the summer together on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland, their solitude disturbed only by migrating birds, sudden storms and an occasional passing boat.
	www.bookcase.btinternet.co.uk /FC2003.htm (14548 words)

	Friedrich Nietzsche - Free Online Library
		In a note, 'Anti-Darwin', Nietzsche stated that "man as a species is not progressing." He substituted the ordinary conception of progress for a doctrine of eternal recurrence, and stressed the positive power of heroic suffering.
		One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
		A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
	nietzsche.thefreelibrary.com (1626 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Our Hidden Lives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives.
		Simon Garfield is an award-winning feature writer on the Observer and author of two previous books of oral history, both highly acclaimed.
		An estimated one million pages eventually found their way to the archive - and it soon became clear this was more than anyone could digest.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=0091897335 (271 words)

	Diary of a Mad Black Woman
		Perry is an extremely popular playwright, and Diary of a Mad Black Woman is based on one of his plays.
		The mad fl woman in question is Helen (Elise), the kept wife of rich Atlanta lawyer Charles McCarter (Steve Harris, Bringing Down the House, Minority Report).
		She had an easy life; now she needs to waitress, ride the bus, and figure out how to move on.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/diary_mad_black.html (623 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Diary of an Ordinary Woman: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The diarist, Millicent King, has such an engaging character and I was surprised and delighted at her modern mindset and sometimes racy life choices - she is a woman ahead of her time.
		No passive product of a Victorian upbringing - she is an intelligent, fiesty and determindly independent person and following her life gives us an intriging insight into how her generation coped with the awful tragedy of two world wars.
		Although I was often moved to tears, her diary entries are also highly amusing - Millicent often being as opinionated and judgemental as a spoiled child.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0701174129 (852 words)

	Westmount Library > Publications > New Books
		Obsession with uncovering the whole truth about an aircraft hijacking that took their parents' lives traps two people in a maze from which there seems to be no exit.
		In the years between the two world wars, ordinary people in Tennessee find their faith in the promise of science to ensure a safe future compromised by government projects like the Oak Ridge atomic laboratory.
		An expert in education blows the whistle on a system fuelled by political correctness that is forcing U.S. schoolchildren to read insipid, bowdlerized texts, willingly doctored by publishers eager for sales.
	www.westlib.org /english/booklists/eaoct03.htm (2078 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Observer review: Diary of an Ordinary Woman 1914-1995 by Margaret Forster
		This mingling of the private and the public is what makes her diary extraordinary, according to Forster, who explains in an introduction how she came to 'edit' the diaries after Millicent's death.
		All of this makes Forster speculate, as others have done before her, about whether there is such a thing as an 'ordinary' life.
		It is simply too much of a burden, both for an 'ordinary' woman and this over-ambitious novel.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,900873,00.html (667 words)

	Reviews of Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures by Charles Hayes
		An abundance of literature has spawned from the annals of the drug culture; much of this material fails to draw considerable notice, generally due to a cheaper, hastily conceived approach.
		The premise of the book—50 people's accounts of their hallucinogenic experiences—is an idea that has probably sprouted at a thousand parties, only to be tossed out with the bongwater the next morning.
		It serves as an ideal closure to the collection, conferring new value and urgency upon the preceding reports by pulling a zoom lens back from their individual stories, and placing them in a cosmological context.
	www.psychedelicadventures.com /Reviews.htm (7311 words)

	BookkooB: Diary of an Ordinary Woman - Margaret Forster
		BookkooB: Diary of an Ordinary Woman - Margaret Forster
		The clarity and honesty of Millicent Kings' diary entries are engaging and, at times, very moving.
		For a modern day woman, Millicent's diaries, which span practically the entire twentieth century, provide a context in which the minutae of our own 'ordinary' lives can be evaluated.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0701174129.htm (861 words)

	Amazon.com: Diary: A Novel: Books: Chuck Palahniuk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As her husband languishes in a coma, Misty begins this diary of spooky doings on the resort island of Waytansea that are somehow related to the couple.
		The book is constructed as a diary supposedly written by Misty Marie, but maybe it is really the diary of her predecessor victim from a hundred years ago, while Misty tries to escape this prescribed destiny.
		Chuck Palahniuk's novel 'Diary' is a tale of horror told through diary entries Misty Wilmot writes to her husband, Peter, so she can fill him in on what has happened in their lives if he ever wakes up from the failed suicide attempt that left him in a coma.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385509472?v=glance (2139 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Diary of a Mad Black Woman"
		"Diary of a Mad Black Woman" is a movie whose existence, and whose significance in our social and political culture, you can't ignore.
		"Diary" was written by Tyler Perry, the enormously successful playwright -- you could almost call him a playwright-entrepreneur -- who attracts a large African-American audience with his plays about relationships and emotional growth layered with broad religious overtones.
		There's also a lively church scene in which the lame walk, and an ex-junkie shows up, cleaned up and wearing a pretty dress, to sing the praises of the Almighty in the aisles.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2005/02/25/diary/index1.html (313 words)

	Diary of an Ordinary Woman - Word Power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century.
		Here is twentieth-century woman in close-up coping with the tragedies and upheavals of women's lives from WWI to Greenham Common and beyond.
		A triumph of resolution and evocation, this is a beautifully observed story of an ordinary woman's life - a narrative where every word rings true.
	www.word-power.co.uk /catalogue/0099449285 (417 words)

	Usenet Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I intensely dislike a situation where anyone who doesn't share (what is mostly seen outside of the USA as) an extreme right wing view of 20th century history is allowed to be bullied into silence, when there is no similar pressure from the other side.
		Which is fair enough, but it should be discussed on the basis that an individual has taken away something that previously was available to everyone, and that replacing it is not necessarily a trivial matter.
		It seems there is an Episcopalian church in New York, just off Broadway, that holds (or held) a Sunday Mass in the very early hours of the morning for the benefit of theatre people who have just finished their performances and want to go to Mass and then go straight home to bed.
	www.all-usenet-archive.com /File.asp?service=3083 (9948 words)

	Reading group sets catalogue D to G \| Shropshire County Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An engrossing and beautifully written novel based on real events of the early twentieth century.
		A young woman fights heroically to keep her family alive during the infamous 1941siege of Leningrad.
		An entertaining memoir from an eccentric author who began full time work at the age of four - as a cure for hyperactivity.
	www.shropshire.gov.uk /library.nsf/open/31F30BFB508D33FF80256C990037C206 (1287 words)

	Toogood Reports Commentary: L. M. Berkowitz
		Her purpose in telling the story of her life was not only to provide a memorial for her children, but as therapy for herself to deal with the depression brought on by grief.
		Glueckel´s diary is full of examples of the precarious circumstances under which the Jews lived, yet she gives constant praise to G-d for blessing her family with security and wealth.
		A modern feminist, who never met a religious Jewish woman in real life, made the sneering comment: “The claim that ultra-Orthodox Jewish women freely choose to bring 12 children into the world is about as solid as the claim that there are women who freely choose to become prostitutes or paid surrogate mothers.
	toogoodreports.com /column/reader/berkowitz/05121301.htm (1038 words)

	Pepys' Diary
		Phillips his chamber, where he demands an abatement for Piggott’s money, which vexes me also, but I will not give it him without my father’s consent, which I will write to him to-night about, and have done it.
		Creed, that came to dine, to an ordinary behind the Change, and there dined together, and after dinner home and there spent an hour or two till almost dark, talking with my wife, and making Mrs.
		Gosnell sing; and then, there being no coach to be got, by water to White Hall; but Gosnell not being willing to go through bridge, we were forced to land and take water, again, and put her and her sister ashore at the Temple.
	www.pepysdiary.com (669 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Critical eye: Mar 8
		The book "is less a novel than a chronicle of events experienced by a token ordinary woman, who is in fact not so much ordinary as iconic," said Brookner, marvelling at Millicent King's survival of tangential, painful encounters with 20th-century disasters: a family decimated by world wars, a possible husband beheaded at Changi.
		Millicent's feminism "is an essential component of her character, and it is useful to be reminded of the conditions in which feminism, and feminists, evolved".
		The pregnant woman is a miracle, or a freak, or sometimes a nuisance...
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,908947,00.html (300 words)

	Diary
		He told me that I could use it if I'm at an ATM (he didn't finish that thought) or it could be for my "significant other." I told him I didn't want one and he said "you know what the Boy Scouts say...Be Prepared."
		A few hours later I found myself at a hospital holiday party, on a dance floor, with Salt-n-Pepa's "Push It" playing and a woman in shoes with heels that lit up when she walked just a few feet away from me. That particular image hadn't been in my emotional repertoire, but it is now.
		The rest of the weekend was certainly not bad, either, as I spent the whole dang thing with the Doctor, first in Baltimore (shopping, eating Mexican food) and then in Washington (lounging around, going to a graduation party, making a trip out to Virginia to see a friend's collection of magic lantern slides).
	www.angelfire.com /ultra/milwacky/diary/index.blog?from=20041231 (1416 words)

	'Ordinary Woman' Wounded in Iraq Awarded Defense of Freedom Medal (washingtonpost.com)
		An Army and Air Force Exchange Service employee, Sarah Latona, has been awarded the Defense of Freedom Medal, the civilian equivalent of the military's Purple Heart.
		Her bus was destroyed, and she was wounded by shrapnel that hit her in an eye, face, right arm, right leg and backside.
		She was headed for Scania, Iraq, a fueling station, when an explosion rocked her bus in the Iraqi desert.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A23544-2005Apr3.html (884 words)

	CND - CND IN THE NEWS
		Among the thicket of banners were some reading “Make tea, not war” that had been distributed by Karmarama, a group of self-proclaimed “race of late galaxy ecologists” originally from “a misshapen planet that looks from orbit like a series of throw pillows with pinholes in them”.
		They believe that Saddam's invasion of Iran, which sparked an eight-year war and cost a million lives, was a western plot.
		He won an MBE for gallantry - calling in RAF air strikes against Arab insurgents - during his time as a civil servant in the British protectorate of Western Aden in the 1960s.
	www.cnduk.org /pages/cnews/030226.htm (2868 words)

	Judyth Vary Baker -- Claims to Have Been Oswald's Girlfriend in New Orleans in 1963
		Her appearance [as a teenager] at an international science fair brought her to the attention of other medical figures with military or intelligence backgrounds, as well as top officials of the American Cancer Society: Dr. Harold Diehl and Dr. Alton Ochsner (of the famed Ochsner Cancer Clinic in New Orleans).
		The notion that Ruby was involved in “gun running” is an old one in conspiracy literature, and has been based on extremely flimsy evidence.
		He was being treated for an undisclosed illness at Ochsner’s Hospital just prior to his death.” In fact, Shaw died after a long bout with cancer, not of any “undisclosed” illness.
	mcadams.posc.mu.edu /judyth.htm (7969 words)

	Mistry Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"There is an Indian proverb or axiom that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional, and a spiritual.
		A 98-year-old woman contacts Margaret Forster, novelist, biographer, memoirist and social historian, with an offer too tempting to refuse.
		Impressed by Forster's famous memoir of her grandmother and mother, Hidden Lives, Millicent was now proposing that Forster edit her own diaries for posthumous publication.
	www.angelfire.com /trek/eastern1tales/mistry_journal.htm (1313 words)

	Margaret Forster
		From here she won an Open Scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford where in 1960 she was awarded an honours degree in History.
		The diary of fictional character Millicent Price, who lives through the Great War, the General Strike, the Depression era of the 30's, the War, and then the Swinging Sixties, Greenham Common and Maggie Thatcher's Britain.
		Years later, as a young woman, the daughter Catherine finds the mysterious box, addressed to her, full of unexplained objects, and she starts to unpack the story of a woman whom she never knew, but who has cast a shadow over her life.
	www.visitcumbria.com /mforster.htm (1175 words)

	The Gadgeteer - Gear Diary: Judie
		After spending at least an hour drooling over his selection of custom bags, custom wallets and his limited edition bags and wallets, I knew I had to place an order.
		If you have been looking for the perfect wallet, clutch, bag...or pretty much anything that can be custom made of leather, an email to Ron would be the right place to start.
		Instead of adding or subtracting numbers to get a particular result, the object was to use the numbers one through nine in a row - but the catch was that whatever row those numbers intersected with could not already contain the number that went into that fl.
	www.the-gadgeteer.com /judiesgear.html (5635 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Diary of an Ordinary Woman: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Buy Diary of an Ordinary Woman with Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir today!
		'Diary of an Ordinary Woman is certainly more gripping and more immediate than many novels..Forster has pulled off an imaginative feat.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
		I think that Margaret Forster is a brilliant author and may she continue to write on and on....
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099449285 (916 words)

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