Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Form and the Diary 1: Antonia White 2: John Cheever 3: Joe Orton 4: Katherine Mansfield 5: Virginia Woolf 6: Sylvia Plath 7: The Dash 8: Sentence Fragments: Diary Cows? 9: "I" And "You" Conclusion: "And coming here this morning..." Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Anna Jackson lectures in English at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the author, with Charles Ferrall, of Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950: The Age of Adolescence.