Diaries as Literature - The Case of Virginia Woolf

In this Open Day taster lecture, Michael Whitworth considers whether diaries are literature and how women writers exploit the possibilities of this genre, looking particularly at the diaries of Virginia Woolf.
Date Published: 11 March 2019
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Contributors: Michael Whitworth
In Collection(s): Virginia Woolf, Introducing modernism, Modernism, Writing lives: biography, autobiography, memoir, life-writing
Keywords: diaries, Virginia Woolf, life-writing
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