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 criti...