Becoming Virginia Woolf [electronic resource] : her early diaries and the diaries she read / Barbara Lounsberry.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Early diary influences -- Virginia Woolf's 1897 diary -- Sir Walter Scott's "gurnal" -- Fanny Burney's diary -- Samuel Pepys's diary -- William Johnson Cory's journals -- Virginia Woolf's 1897 diary concluded -- The experimenter: Virginia Woolf?s 1899 warboys diary -- Virginia Woolf's 1899 warboys diary -- Choosing the outsider role -- Virginia Woolf's 1903 diary -- James Boswell's journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. -- Professional writer -- Virginia Woolf's 1904-1905 diary -- Embracing the unconscious -- Virginia's Woolf's ghostly 1905 Cornwall diary -- Virginia Woolf's 1906-1908 Great Britain travel diary -- William Allingham's diary -- Lady Dorothy Nevill's note-books -- Lady Charlotte Bury's diary of a lady-in-waiting -- Virginia Woolf's Great Britain travel diary concluded -- The problem of description -- Virginia woolf's 1906-1909 continental travel diary -- The journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland -- Virginia Woolf's continental travel diary concluded -- Virginia Woolf's 1909 life diary -- Dr. Charles Meryon's diaries celebrating Lady Hester Stanhope -- Ralph Waldo Emerson's early journals -- Mary Coleridge's diary -- The diary coalesces -- Virginia Woolf's 1915 diary -- Mary Berry's journals -- Virginia Woolf's Asheham House natural history diary: 1917-1918 -- Virginia Woolf's 1917-1918 collaborative Hogarth House diary -- The journals of Edmond and Jules de Goncourt -- Stopford Brooke's diary -- Virginia Woolf's 1918 coalescing Hogarth House diary: January 4-July 23 -- Epilogue.

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