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Diary of Marion Boyd Allen (Grades )
Marion ("Minnie") Boyd Allen () was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 23, When she was older she studied at the art school of the Boston Museum of Fine Art and became a prominent painter. When she was in her 60s, she even traveled west to paint the Grand Canyon!
Minnie kept this diary from age 12 to 14 from June 15, , right before a three-month summer break, to December 24, , while she lived in Boston with her parents and brother. Minnie wrote about writing in her journal; going to school, church, Sunday school, parties, plays, the circus, baseball games, and the dentist; reading, being read to, and reading aloud to others; knitting, drawing, sketching, painting, and inking; having her picture taken; making molasses candy, peppermints, enigmas, poetry, jack o'lanterns, valentines, and Christmas presents; dancing; singing; riding; taking piano lessons; collecting mosses, rocks, birds eggs, and wood; playing card games such as pitch, e
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Marion Boyd Allen diary,
Marion ("Minnie") Boyd Allen , was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 23, She was the daughter of Stillman Boyd Allen (), a lawyer, and Harriet Smith (Seaward) Allen (). Minnie studied at the art school of the Boston Museum of Fine Art with Tarbell and Benson, and became a prominent painter, winning many prizes in the s to the s. At the age of 67, she "braved the wild" to paint the Grand Canyon. On March 6,, she married William Augustus Allen () in Boston, Massachusetts. She died on December 28,
This diary, for the period June 15, to December 24, , was kept while Minnie resided in Boston with her parents and brother. The diary, which begins with the last day of school before the summer three-month break when Minnie was twelve-years-old and ends the day before Christmas when Minnie was fourteen-years-old, is a record of her daily activities. Those activities included writing in her journal; going to school, church, Sunday school, parties, plays,
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“Went to school in forenoon for the last time. Vacation! Vacation!! no school for three months,” begins the diary of twelve-year-old Marion (“Minnie”) Boyd Allen on June 15, This first entry—one which we would expect to find in a twelve-year-old’s diary now as then—is the perfect opening to a volume that proves to be as fascinating for its mundaneness as for its extraordinary in-depth look into the everyday life of what we now call a “tween” in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Minnie was born in Boston on October 23, , to Stillman Boyd Allen (), a lawyer, and his wife, Harriet Smith (Seaward) Allen (). The Allens lived in the South End of Boston, which in was nearing the end of its heyday as a fashionable precursor to the Back Bay neighborhood that was then being built. Census records indicate that the Allens were well off, her father’s house being estimated at $50, and his personal property at $, in Her diary paints a vivid picture of her comfortable upper-middle-class c