Logick in Pieces: a Stratigraphic Conversation in Woolf’s Diary

Abstract

In this paper I contend that Virginia Woolf is not merely keeping records of her holidays in her Warboys Diary of 1899 but is also introducing a complex form of conversation within the narrative. The author opens the frontiers of everyday writing to a conversation with a potential reader, and undertakes a literary conversation with other genres. Additionally she creates a process of material conversation with an eighteenth-century book, thus transforming her diary into an ‘art object’ and autobiographical writing into an ‘auto-strati-graphy’.