Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-century Novel

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Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-century Novel is written by Catherine Delafield and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0754665178 (ISBN 10) and 9780754665175 (ISBN 13).

Using private diary writing as her model, Catherine Delafield investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women's writing and reading practices. Examining historical and fictional diaries by authors such as Frances Burney, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Brontë, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker, Delafield reveals the ideological discrepancy between the private diary and its performance in the role of narrator, offering fresh insights into domesticity, authorship, and the diary as a feminine form and model for narrative.