Suzanne bins ed. Diaries of Girls a...

Suzanne bins ed. Diaries of Girls and Women: A Midwestern American Sampler. Madison: U of Wisconsin P 2001 457 pp ISBN 0-29917220-1 $6000 cloth; ISBN 0-299-17224-4 $2495 paper.

Having freshly completed an edition of a mid-nineteenth-century working-class woman's travel diary, I have follow to appreciate both the diversity and complexity of this apparently naive and straightforward form. As cribs acknowledges in her introduction, "the diary crosse the often-blurr (and sometimes imaginary) border between the public and the private, the literary and the