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Anna Green Winslow
1759–1779
A lively young observer of colonial Boston, she left behind letters that capture school life, fashion, manners, and the first stirrings of the American Revolution. Her writing feels vivid and personal, offering a rare glimpse of everyday life through the eyes of a sharp, spirited teenager.
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Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771
by Anna Green Winslow
About the author
Anna Green Winslow was an American letter writer born on November 29, 1759. She came from the prominent Winslow family of Boston and is remembered for the letters she wrote to her mother between 1771 and 1773.
Those letters, often published as the Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771, are valued for their lively picture of daily life among the colonial gentry. They describe lessons, clothing, social customs, and family routines at a moment when tensions leading to the American Revolution were beginning to shape life in Boston.
Although she died young, Anna Green Winslow left a record that still feels fresh and immediate. Her words are especially striking because they show history not from a battlefield or government chamber, but from the everyday world of a perceptive girl growing up in eighteenth-century New England.