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The Hidden Writer presents seven portraits of renowned women authors, delving into the diaries that shaped their literary paths. Alexandra Johnson traces the intimate records of Marjory Fleming, revealing a young writer’s quest for voice; Sonya Tolstoy, showing the tug‑of‑war between love and vocation; the friendship between Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf, exposing the sting of rivalry; and the entry of Alice James at forty, exposing family‑based creative tensions. The study also covers Anais Nin’s confessional diary explosion and May Sarton’s introspective solitude, illustrating how diaries helped these writers confront silence, ambition, envy, and fame across generations.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Alexandra Johnson
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