Wednesday, January 15, 2014

girl's diary published in 1902

I wish I could read this one, to see what the criticism was about and what was so outrageous about it (for 1902). The first blurb hints that it might have been published in NY under a different title, but what?

This first blurb is from The New York Times, October 11, 1902.

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William Heinemann will publish Oct. 16 an new book of "extracts from a girl's diary," called "For Her Sex," which will probably excite severe criticism because of its ostensibly "frank" and unquestionably crude way of dealing with subjects usually treated with reserve. It is whispered that the book is of American origin and has already been published in New York under another title.

The second one is from  London St. James Gazette, October 20, 1902.

"For Her Sex" being supposedly extracts from the diary of a girl suicide, is issued under an anonymous editorship. The result is so morbid, so erroneous, and so stupid that the anonymity may well be preserved. We are neither thrilled nor edified. (Heinemann.)

Aren't you interested? 

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