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Ben-Amos, Batsheva and Dan ben-Amos, eds. The Diary: The Epic of Everyday Life. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2020.
Bunkers, Suzanne L. & Cynthia Anne Huff, Ed. Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women’s Diaries. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. In general, life-writing is now turning to the everyday.
Carter, Kathryn. “Accounting for Time in Nineteenth-Century Manuscript Diaries and Photographs.” Life Writing 12:4 (2015): 417-430.
Cully, Margo. Ed. A Day at a Time: The Diary Literature of American Women from 1764 to the Present. New York: Feminist Press, 1985.
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Steinitz, Rebecca. Time, Space, and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century British Diary. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Steinitz argues that the diary’s unique organization of time and space made it a popular vehicle for the dominant discourses of the Victorian era.
