ABSTRACT
Virginia Woolf's intentions for her diary, as occasionally, and variously, stated in the diary itself, seem similar to Margaret Scott's sense of how Katherine Mansfield's writings could be used, as a mine of information to be reworked into a different form, as another text. She pictures herself as her own reader, drawing on the diary as raw material for her memoirs. Podnieks counters Judy Simons' suggestion that the narrative control evident in Woolf's diaries "suggests her needs of a structural principal, however slight, to assure herself of her own control over the medium of her life," with the suggestion she was "as determined to assert control over the medium of her diary as art". Indicators of "the raw material of her art" are a category that can cover any remaining entry. Their being placed in the context of the entries specifically on the writing process encourages such readings of the others.
