%0 Journal Article
%T Writing and Reading Diaries in Mid
%A Victoria Stewart
%J Literature & History
%@ 2050-4594
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0306197318755679
%X Using the diaries of Jean Lucey Pratt as a case study, the article assesses the impact of the availability of published diaries in mid-twentieth-century Britain on conventions in diary-writing practice. Consideration is also given to the effect of PrattĄ¯s involvement in Mass-Observation on her perception of her diary, and to the wider influence of Mass-Observation on twentieth-century diary-writing, given that this project troubles the idea of the diary as an individualistic, private form of writing
%K Diaries
%K Jean Lucey Pratt
%K Mass-Observation
%K 1930s¨C1950s
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306197318755679