Anna Green Winslow (November 29, 1759 – July 19, 1780), was an American letter writer. A member of the prominent Winslow family of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, she wrote a series of letters to her mother between 1771 and 1773 that portray the daily life of the gentry in Boston at the first stirrings of the American Revolution.[1][2][3][4] She made copies of the letters into an eight-by-six-and-a-half-inch book (20 cm × 17 cm) in order to improve her penmanship, making the accounts a sort of diary as well.[2][5] This diary, edited by 19th-century American historian and author Alice Morse Earle, was published in 1894 under the title Diary of Anna Green Winslow, A Boston School Girl of 1771, and has never gone out of print.[6] It provides a rare window into the life of an affluent teenage girl in colonial Boston.[3][4]
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- ^ Winslow, Anna Green (1894). Alice Morse Earle (ed.). Diary of Anna Green Winslow, A Boston School Girl of 1771 (eBook). Project Gutenberg. p. 121. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
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