Victorian Diary vs Writing a woman's life: Which Should You Read?

Victorian Diary Anne-Marie Millim · 2013 226 pages · ≈ 4 h 11 m · Challenging

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.…

Writing a woman's life Carolyn G. Heilbrun · 1988 ★★★★☆ 4.1 144 pages · ≈ 2 h 40 m · Challenging

“THIS IS the true story of a woman who was born exactly a century before Freud published The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.”

Drawing on the experience of celebrated women, from George Sand and Virginia Woolf to Dorothy Sayers and Adrienne Rich, Heilbrun examines the struggle these writers undertook when their drives made it impossible for…