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.