Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good DJ. London Elm Tree Books 1974. Hardback with minor exterior wear, sunned spine. Contents otherwise clean and sound. Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches. Weight: 15.2 ounces. In this intriguing survey of published diaries, [the author] describes the backgrounds and careers of over fifty men and women who in their journals wrote both for and about themselves, without attempting to present themselves in a favourable light for posterity. Among his subjects are Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, Arnold Bennett, Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley and Queen Victoria.
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