It is rather a confusing book at the beginning until you figure out just what is going on and then it becomes a living, breathing thing in your hands. Many, many different times, places & lifestyles are described wherein 'Joan' lives, works, loves. What my friends do not know is that I am also every woman who has ever drawn breath: there has been a Joan cooking, washing, and sweeping through every event of history, although she has not been mentioned in the books until now."Joan Makes History is a book full of snippits of cross sections of life. I am known to my unimaginative friends simply as Joan, born when this century was new, and now a wife, a mother, and a grandmother: Joan who has cooked dinners, washed socks, and swept floors while history happened elsewhere. "So many lives! Being explorers or prisoners of the Crown, hairdressers or tree-choppers, washerwomen or judges, ladies of leisure or bareback riders, photographers or mothers or mayoresses.I, Joan, have been all these things.
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