Table of Contents:
  • Issues in studying women's diaries : a theoretical and critical introduction / Suzanne L. Bunkers and Cynthia A. Huff
  • "I write for myself and strangers" : private diaries as public documents / Lynn Z. Bloom
  • Rewriting her life : fictionalization and the use of fictional models in early American women's diaries / Steven E. Kagle and Lorenza Gramegna
  • A lens of empathy / Jeanne Braham
  • Fragments as diary : theoretical implications of the Dreams and visions of "Baby Doe" Tabor / Judy Nolte Temple
  • A feminist revision of New Historicism to give fuller readings of women's private writing / Helen M. Buss
  • The "journal de jeune fille" in nineteenth-century France / Philippe Lejeune ; translated by Martine Breillac
  • Textual boundaries : space in nineteenth-century women's manuscript diaries / Cynthia A. Huff
  • When meanings meet : The journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké / Geneva Cobb-Moore
  • Preserving the moment in the diary of Margaret Fountaine / Harriet Blodgett
  • The diary as creative midwife : interviews with three writers / Trudelle H. Thomas
  • The private alibi : literacy and community in the diaries of two nineteenth-century American women / Marilyn Ferris Motz
  • Ambivalence, anger, and silence : the Civil War diary of Lucy Buck / Elizabeth R. Baer
  • Diaries and dysfunctional families : the case of Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie Huftalen / Suzanne L. Bunkers
  • Old Virginia and the night writer : the origins of Woolf's narrative meander / H. Porter Abbott
  • Invented lives : textuality and power in early women's diaries / Judy Simons.