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Here are several of the most useful sources that I've found in my work on diaries. 

Bloom, Lynn Z. "‘I Write for Myself and Others’: Private Diaries as Public Documents." Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women’s Diaries. Ed. Bunkers and Huff. 23-27.

Bunkers, Suzanne L., ed. "All Will Yet Be Well": The Diary of Sarah Gillespie Huftalen, 1873- 1952. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993.

Bunkers, Suzanne L., ed. Diaries of Girls and Women: a Midwestern American Sampler. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.

Bunkers, Suzanne. L., and Cynthia A. Huff, eds. Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

Bunkers, Suzanne L. In Search of Susanna. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996.

Buss, Helen M. "Pioneer Women's Diaries and Journals: Letters Home/Letters to the Future." Mapping Our Selves: Canadian Women's Autobiography in English. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. 37-60.

Carter, Kathryn, ed. The Small Details of a Life: Twenty Diaries by Women in Canada, 1830-1996. University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Carter, Kathryn. Voix Feministes, Feminist Voices. Diaries in English by Women in Canada, 1753-1995: An Annotated Bibliography. Ottawa: CRIAW/ICREF, 1997.

Culley, Margo C., ed. A Day at a Time: The Diary Literature of American Women from 1764 to the Present. New York: The Feminist Press, 1985.

Davis, Douglas. "Controversy Erupts over Publication of Missing Frank Diary Pages." Jewish Telegraphic News (reprinted in the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix, 4 September 1998).

Fothergill, Robert. Private Chronicles: A Study of English Diaries. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.

 Scientific Edition of the Diary of Anne Frank: Fifth Amended Print. Ed. David Barnouw and Gerrold Van Der Stroom. Amsterdam: Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, forthcoming, 2003.

Fulmer, Constance, and Margaret E. Barfield, eds. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot: Edith J. Simcox’s Autobiography of a Shirtmaker. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998.

Gannett, Cinthia. Gender and the Journal: Diaries and Academic Discourse. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Gwin, Minrose C., ed. A Woman’s Civil War: A Diary, with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862, by Cornelia Peake McDonald. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography. General Editor: William L. Andrews.

Hogan, Rebecca. "Engendered Autobiographies: The Diary as a Feminine Form." Prose Studies: Special Issue on Autobiography and Questions of Gender 14.2 (September 1991): 95-107.

Huff, Cynthia. "‘That Profoundly Female, and Feminist Genre’: The Diary as Feminist Praxis." Women’s Studies Quarterly 17.3-4 (Fall-Winter 1989): 6-14.

Huff, Cynthia. "Reading as Re-vision: Approaches to Reading Manuscript Diaries. Biography 23.3. To read the essay online, go to this URL:

Hull, Gloria T., ed. Give Us This Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1984.

Knoch-Mund, Christoph, and Chana Moshenska. "Anne Frank and the Use of Diaries in Holocaust Education." Unpublished paper delivered at "Dear Diary": New Approaches to an Established Genre: An International Conference. England: University of Sussex, November 2001.

Lejeune, Philippe. "Cher Ecran" . . . Journal personnel, ordinateur, Internet. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2000.

Lejeune, Philippe. "How Do Diaries End?" Biography 24.1 (Winter 2001): 99-111.

Lejeune, Philippe. "The ‘Journal de jeune fille" in Nineteenth-Century France." Trans. Martine Breillac. In Inscribing the Daily. Ed. Bunkers and Huff. 107-122.

Lejeune, Philippe. "Tenir un journal: histoire d’une enquete." Poetique (September 1997): 359-81.

Lensink, Judy Nolte, ed. "A Secret to be Burried": The Diary and Life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989.

McMahon, Lucia, and Deborah Schriver, eds. To Read My Heart: The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke, 1810-1811. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Muller, Melissa. Anne Frank: The Biography. Trans. Rita Kimber and Robert Kimber. New York: Henry Holt, 1998.

Nussbaum, Laureen. "New Diary Fragments." Anne Frank Magazine, 1999.

Sinor, Jennifer. The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray’s Diary. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002.

Temple, Judy Nolte [formerly Lensink]. "Fragments as Diary: Theoretical Implications of the Dreams and Visions of ‘Baby Doe’ Tabor." Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women’s Diaries. 72-85.

Temple, Judy Nolte. "They Shut Me Up In Prose: A Cautionary Tale of Two Emilys." Frontiers, 22.1 (March 2001): 150-173.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, ed. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. New York: Knopf, 1990.

Wink, Amy L. She Left Nothing in Particular: 19th Century Women's Diaries. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001.