ABSTRACT
This study has investigated the significance of women’s diary narrative in the nineteenth-century novel using both the ideological model of women’s diary writing and a critics’ model of diary fiction. The readings in Part 2 are grounded in literary analysis contextualized by nineteenth-century printing and reading practices. The diary’s structure, its language and narrative occasion, are the means of interrogating the novels and their contemporary reception. Women as writers, readers and subjects become performers through the medium of the diary record.
