ABSTRACT
The fictional model of the diary employed by novelists is also predicated on the published diary. This chapter investigates the event of a woman’s diary entering the marketplace by examining the appearance of the first diary in print, that of Frances Burney. It then considers the diaries which emerge in print within the six core texts. The private use of the diary as women’s life writing and the public editorial practices of the printed diary feed directly into any analysis of the published diary acting as a fictional narrative.
