Ada May (Grimshaw) Illingworth

The diary was written by my husband's grandmother who died in the early 1950s, a few years before he was born. Her daughter had kept it but never read it (she did tell me she always meant to). My brother-in-law found it in her barn and brought it up to me knowing how interested I would be. I first read it about ten years ago, re-read it about five years ago and am now transcribing it on the blog I mentioned.
It is a small black leather five year diary, 1915 - 1919, her writing is generally legible and she has recorded a few lines almost every day.
It is very repetitive but if you stay with it an amazing picture of her life, the life of an ordinary woman in small town pre-1920, Vermont, USA emerges.
If you look in my Grimshaw set you can see what Ada May looked like. Technically, she was Ada May Illingworth when the diary was written - I kept her maiden name.