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

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  • © 1990

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  1. Judy Simons

    1. Sheffield City Polytechnic, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Secret Exhibitionists: Women and their Diaries

    • Judy Simons
    Pages 1-18

  3. The Fear of Discovery: The Journals of Fanny Burney

    • Judy Simons
    Pages 19-39

  4. Self and Shadow: The Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth

    • Judy Simons
    Pages 40-60

  5. Dark Imagery: The Journal of Mary Shelley

    • Judy Simons
    Pages 61-82

  6. Behind the Scenes: The Early Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    • Judy Simons
    Pages 83-105

  7. The Double Life: The Journal of Louisa May Alcott

    • Judy Simons
    Pages 106-127

  8. The Life Apart: The Diaries of Edith Wharton

    • Judy Simons
    Pages 128-148

  9. The Mask Beneath the Mask: The Journal of Katherine Mansfield

    • Judy Simons
    Pages 149-168

  10. The Safety Curtain: The Diary of Virginia Woolf

    • Judy Simons
    Pages 169-188

  11. Conclusion

    • Judy Simons
    Pages 189-204

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 205-218
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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.

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  • Sheffield City Polytechnic, UK

    Judy Simons

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