Barbara Lounsberry has done for Woolf's diaries what the diaries once did for Woolf's novels, and what all great literary criticism seeks to do: It takes a canonical work of literature and offers an entirely new way of seeing it."— New Republic"Lounsberry uses these [diaries] to demonstrate that as fascism flourished and dear friends died, diaries—as a lifeline and a path forward—became integral to both Woolf's doing and her undoing. . . . Essential."—Choice"In her comprehensive, close readings of Woolf's entire diary, Lounsberry significantly advances scholarship on Woolf's most sustained literary endeavor. . . . Lounsberry enhances our understanding of the diary as a genre informed by its own traditions, aesthetics, and intertextual networks throughout history. She also showcases how Woolf's diary is itself a work of art."—Review of English Studies
