Through no fault of my own [electronic resource] : a girl's diary of life on Summit Avenue in the Jazz Age / Coco Irvine ; introduction by Peg Meier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irvine, Coco, 1914-1975.

Contributor:

Meier, Peg, 1946-

Series:

Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series.

The Fesler/Lampert Minnesota heritage book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls--Minnesota--Saint Paul--Diaries.

Teenage girls.

Teenage girls--Minnesota--Saint Paul--Social life and customs--20th century.

Summit Avenue (Saint Paul, Minn.)--History--20th century.

Summit Avenue (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Saint Paul (Minn.)--History--20th century.

Saint Paul (Minn.).

Saint Paul (Minn.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Saint Paul (Minn.)--Biography.

Irvine, Coco, 1914-1975--Diaries.

Irvine, Coco.

Irvine, Coco, 1914-1975--Childhood and youth.

Irvine, Coco, 1914-1975--Family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On Christmas Day, 1926, twelve-year-old Clotilde ôCocoö Irvine received a blank diary as a present. Coco loved to writeùand to get into scrapesùand her new diary gave her the opportunity to explain her side of the messes she created: ôI'm in deep trouble through no fault of my own,ö her entries frequently began. The daughter of a lumber baron, Coco grew up in a twenty-room mansion on fashionable Summit Avenue at the peak of the Jazz Age, a time when music, art, and women's social status were all in a state of flux and the economy was still flying high. Coco's diary carefully records her advent

Contents:

Cover; Through No Fault of My Own; Introduction; THROUGH NO FAULT OF MY OWN; Afterword

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4529-3134-8

OCLC:

712015733