Mary MacLane wrote this diary when she was 19 years old and lived in Butte, Montana. It covers roughly the first three months of the year 1901 and describes the frustration and unhappiness that she felt as an intelligent and ambitious young woman, due to the constraints society placed on her and the lack of any cultural stimulus in a mining town like Butte. These negative emotions are not only wielded like a weapon, she also hits her readers over the head with the notion […]