In the letters to her mother , she recorded her advances in sewing and the social niceties , her daily Bible readings aloud to her Aunt Deming , sermons by Puritan preachers that she had heard at the Old South Church — including the fiery Reverend John Bacon — and elsewhere , and her many social engagements . However , like young girls of any age , despite her Puritan heritage , which emphasized modesty and piety , Anna spent nearly as much time expressing her love of fashion , including chastising her mother for a hat she contended made her look like a street seller . Anna made a lament that sounds like any modern teenager 's : " Dear mamma , you dont know the fation here — I beg to look like other folk . " In one amusing entry , dated May 25 , 1773 , Anna reveled in her " famous roll , " an elaborate wig concocted out of " a red '' Cow Tail '' " and very coarse horsehair and blonde human hair , a wig that was a full inch longer than Anna 's face . Her aunts did not approve of what they clearly saw as a foolish vanity : " I had my HEDDUS roll on , aunt Storer said it ought to be made less , Aunt Deming said it ought not to be made at all . " Anna 's diary hints at the effect Revolutionary fever had on families , who split on the question of how the British Crown treated its 13 American colonies . Earle , who specialized in books on colonial New England , added enough footnotes to nearly double the published book 's length . ( The diary itself takes up 72 pages . ) In the footnotes , Earle made explicit how the American Revolution divided the extended Winslow family and clarified two oblique references to the Boston Massacre . Anna 's father was a confirmed Loyalist , but it seems that Anna may have been more like her distant cousin , Patriot Dr. Issac Winslow ( whom she visited for eight days , along with his father , Major-General John Winslow at their home in Marshfield , Massachusetts in the spring of 1773 ) , for she referred to herself as " a daughter of liberty " and enthusiastically embraced making homespun in order to eschew imported British goods
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre
Anna Green Winslow