... 's life is worthy of documentation. As a diarist, the writer also becomes a reader, making self-conscious remarks strewn with self-mockery. A direct example of this is when James' refers one of Emily Dickinson's poems in her diary, while explaining how she had been asked by her doctor if she'd ever been written for the press like her famous brothers: How dreary to be ... ...

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