Dorothy Bryant's pioneer novel of women's consciousness unfolds as a series of entries in the journal of Ella Price, a suburban California housewife with a reliable husband, a teenaged daughter and a deep sense of discontent, who decides to join college for the first time at the age of thirty five. What Ella learns inside and outside of class will leave her irrevocably changed, and force her to make painful and empowering choices. Dorothy Bryant's compassionate depiction of the conflicts that women face -- between freedom and security, between attachment and independence and between the dull comforts of conformity and the frightening challenges of forging a self-determined identity -- will bring no less of a shock reaction today then when it was first published in 1972. A moving and unique story, Ella Price's Journal affirms the possibility of growth towards a richly intense and authentic life at any age.