Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf

This highly original book investigates the part played by their personal writings in the lives of eight literary women. Can private journals provide information about their authors' public works? Do diaries dramatise the development of an individual literary `voice'? What was the special attraction of the diary form for women, and why has it been so undervalued? Drawing on current feminist critical approaches, Judy Simons explores these and other questions in a stimulating and wide-ranging study of women's diary writing, which revises our entire way of thinking about this traditionally neglected genre and its particular implications for the woman writer.

Autorentext

JUDY SIMONS

Inhalt
Acknowledgements - Secret Exhibitionists: Women and their Diaries - The Fear of Discovery: The Journals of Fanny Burney - Self and Shadow: The Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth - Dark Imagery: The Journal of Mary Shelley - Behind the Scenes: The Early Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning - The Double Life: The Journal of Louisa May Alcott - The Life Apart: The Journal of Edith Wharton - The Mask Beneath the Mask: The Journal of Katherine Mansfield - The Safety Curtain: The Diary of Virginia Woolf - Select Bibliography - Index