Research Catalog

Title

The hidden writer : diaries and the creative life / Alexandra Johnson.

Author

Johnson, Alexandra.

Publication

New York : Doubleday, 1997.

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Details

Description

xi, 275 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"Presenting seven portraits of literary and creative lives, Alexandra Johnson illuminates the secret world pf writers and their diaries, and shows how over generations these writers have used the diary to solve a common set of creative and life questions". The seven women are: Marjory Flemming, Sonya Tolstoy, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Alice James, Anais Nin, and May Sarton.

Subject

• American diaries > History and criticism
• English diaries > History and criticism
• Women and literature > English-speaking countries
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Women > Biography > Authorship
• American diaries
• English diaries
• Women
• Women and literature
• Kreativität
• Schriftstellerin
• American diaries > Women authors > History and criticism
• English diaries > Women authors > History and criticism
• Women and literature > United States
• Women and literature > Great Britain
• English-speaking countries
• USA
• Englisch

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Discusses Marjory Fleming, Sonya Tolstoy, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Alice James, Anaïs Nin, and May Sarton.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Prologue: From Eye to I -- Ch. 1. The Shadow Writers -- Ch. 2. The Married Muse -- Ch. 3. The Hidden Writer in a Writing Family -- Ch. 4. A Public of Two -- Ch. 5. The Professionally Private Writer -- Ch. 6. A Writer in the Uncertain Seasons -- Epilogue: First Person Singular.

ISBN

• 0385478291
• 9780385478298

LCCN

96034066

OCLC

• ocm35145970
• 35145970
• SCSB-8409835

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library