Catherine Delafield, Women’s Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Abstract

Catherine Delafield proposes to examine the interaction between fictional and non-fictional female diaries and the consequences in fiction of the discrepancy between a woman’s private life and the public life of this diary once published. She bases her demonstration on Fanny Burney’s diary, which underwent the editing process three times by three different persons before being published, and on the diaries in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte, A Life for a Life by Dinah Craik, Wilkie...