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Redrawing established boundaries between genres, Podnieks builds a broad critical and theoretical range on which she maps the diary as an aesthetic work, showing how diaries inscribe the aesthetics of literary modernisms. Drawing on feminist theory, literary history, biography, and personal anecdotes, she argues that the diary is an especially subversive space for women writers. Podnieks details how Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Anaïs Nin wrote their diaries under the pretence that they were private, while always intending them to be published. She travelled extensively to examine the original diary manuscripts and offers unique first-hand descriptions of the manuscripts that underscore the artistic intentions of their authors.
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\I wish to keep a record\ : nineteenth-century New Brunswick women diarists and their world
\"Nineteenth-century New Brunswick society was dominated by white, Protestant, Anglophone men. Yet, during this time of state formation in Canada, women increasingly helped to define and shape a provincial outlook. I wish to keep a record is the first book to focus exclusively on the life-course experiences of nineteenth-century New Brunswick women. Gail G. Campbell offers an interpretive scholarly analysis of 28 women's diaries while enticing readers to listen to the voices of the diarists. Their diaries show women constructing themselves as individuals, assuming their essential place in building families and communities, and shaping their society by directing its outward gaze and envisioning its future. Campbell's lively analysis calls on scholars to distinguish between immigrant and native-born women and to move beyond present-day conceptions of such women's world. This unique study provides a framework for developing an understanding of women's worlds in nineteenth-century North America.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Reading early modern women's writing
This book contains an account of writing by women from the mid 16th century through to 1700. It also traces the way a representative sample of that writing was published, circulated in manuscript, read, anthologised, reprinted, and discussed from the time it was produced through to the present day. Salzman's study covers an enormous range of women from all areas of early modern society, and it covers examples of the many and varied genres produced by these women, from plays to prophecies, diaries to poems, autobiographies to philosophy. As well as introducing the wealth of material produced by women in the early modern period, this book examines changing responses to what was written, tracing a history of reception and transmission that amounts to a cultural history of changing taste.
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The Small Details of Life
Twenty diary excerpts written between 1830 and 1996 sketch the lives of Canadian women from the upper-class travails of nineteenth-century travelers and settlers to the workday struggles and triumphs of twentieth-century teachers, housewives, and writers.
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\my long toil at the women's lectures\: Re-Considering Audience Virginia Woolf's Room of One's Own
After training in textual and bibliographic studies at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,2 I have earned a living for two decades as a secondary school teacher. [...]Woolf doubted both the relevance of her own guidance and the young women's interest in receiving it. Neither the audience nor the author of those initial lectures can have anticipated what would eventually come into being, nor the impact of that argument on successive generations of women, authors, and women authors. Woolf uses narrative to reveal the paltry fare served to the young women, as opposed to the heartier dishes and drink enjoyed by male students, and to depict the various gender-based institutional limitations in place at \"Oxbridge\" and the British Library at that time, two bastions of traditional (male) privilege.
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Classic African American women's narratives
Classic African American Women's Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important prose written by African American women before 1865. The book reproduces the canon of African American women's fiction and autobiography duringthe slavery era in U.S. history. Each text in the volume represents a first. Maria Stewart's Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality (1831) was the first political tract authored by an African American woman. Jarena Lee's Life and Religious Experience (1836) was the first African Americanwoman's spiritual autobiography. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850) was the first slave narrative to focus on the experience of a female slave in the United States. Frances E. W. Harper's The Two Offers (1859) was the first short story published by an African American woman. Harriet E.Wilson's Our Nig (1859) was the first novel written by an African American woman. Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) was the first autobiography authored by an African American woman. Charlotte Forten's Life on the Sea Islands (1864) was the first contribution by anAfrican American woman to a major American literary magazine (the Atlantic Monthly). Complemented with an introduction by William L. Andrews, this is the only one-volume collection to gather the most important works of the first great era of African American women's writing.
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The journals of Mary Butts
British modernist writer Mary Butts (1890ndash;1937), now recognized as one of the most important and original authors of the interwar years, lived an unconventional life. She encountered many of the most famous figures in early twentieth-century literature, music, and art-among them T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein-and came to know some of them intimately. These luminaries figure prominently in journals in which Butts chronicled the development of her craft between 1916 and her untimely death in 1937. This volume is the first substantial edition of her journals. Introduced and annotated by Nathalie Blondel, the leading authority on Butts's life and works, the book reveals the workings of a complex and distinctive mind while offering vivid insights into her fascinating era.
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