A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 | Overview
A historical novel about a courageous nineteenth-century girl, A Gathering of Days is written in the form of a journal. The teenager's entries give details of daily life with family, friends, and school, rendering a gentle and intimate portrayal of tragedy and tranquility, justice and responsibility, death, loss, and the ability to trust. Through the journal, designed to resemble authentic diaries of pre-Civil War New England, the reader follows Catherine's thoughts and witnesses the changes and growth that maturity brings.
Although a portrait of early New Hampshire, the...
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