Private lives ... public laundry. (diaries and journals, various writers, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, New York)

From: Insight on the News | Date: June 23, 1997| Author: Horvitz, Leslie Alan | Copyright information

'Private Histories: Four Centuries of Journal Keeping' demonstrates how early memoirists wrote about subjects other than themselves. Early journal writing played a role in the development the modern English novel.

An exhibit of diaries and journals at Pierpont Morgan Library in New York reminds readers that memoirists once wrote about the world, not just themselves.

Americans are nothing if not practical, and this may account for the current wave of memoirs sweeping...

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