The Victorian Diary: Authorship and Emotional Labour

by Anne-Marie Millim

Book Overview

In her examination of neglected diaristic texts, Anne-Marie Millim expands the field of Victorian diary criticism by complicating the conventional notion of diaries as mainly private sources of biographical information. She argues that for Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin, Edith Simcox and Gerard Manley Hopkins, the exposure or publication of their diaries was a real possibility that they either...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367879026
• ISBN13: 9780367879020
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"