This highly original book investigates the part played by their personal writings in the lives of eight literary women. Can private journals provide information

This book examines the literary construction of personal identity through autobiographical narratives by three significant writers analysed together for the fir

The diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers

This book explores how the publication of women’s life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth cen