The Private Life of the Diary by Sally Bayley

The Private Life of the Diary by Sally Bayley

The elegantly told story of the evolution of the diary from a private means of self-expression in the seventeenth century to the public sharing of our life via social media.

"A masterly study on the 'long historical habit' of diary writing.. Bayley's book succeeds brilliantly in merging scholarship with imagination, and emotional depth with writerly flair." * Independent *
"A delight for fans of Sylvia Plath as well as diary writers everywhere." * Woman's Way Ireland *
"An elegant survey of diaries through history and why we keep them . . . Bayley is splendidly dismissive of blogs – sending boring screeds into "a blank universe" – and when she defined tweeting as "a sort of premature mental ejaculation" I wrote in the margin in Sylvia Plath-size letters with a Magic Marker: Brava, Sally!" -- Roger Lewis * The Times *

Sally Bayley is a Teaching and Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford and a Lecturer in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She has written widely on visual responses to literature, including a jointly authored study of Sylvia Plath’s relationship to the visual arts, Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath’s Art of the Visual (Oxford University Press, 2007) and a study of Plath as a cultural icon, Representing Sylvia Plath (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

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ISBN 13	9781783522224
ISBN 10	1783522224
Title	The Private Life of the Diary
Author	Sally Bayley
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Unbound
Year published	2016-04-21
Number of pages	336
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