Where Narratives Meet: Archival Description, Provenance, and Women's Diaries

Women's diaries have been a rich source of information for historians and other scholars because they contain details of everyday life in different times and places that may otherwise have gone unrecorded. This article addresses the common archival description of diaries and discusses the riche...

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Published in:Libraries & the cultural record 2009-01, Vol.44 (1), p.82-100
Main Author: Beattie, Heather
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Analysis
Archival description
Archives
Archives & records
Archivists
Contextual information
Diaries
Forecasts and trends
Historians
History
Journal writing
Motivation
Narratives
Poetry
Provenance
Records management
Russian history
Women
Writing
Written correspondence
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Archivists
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Forecasts and trends
Historians
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Journal writing
Motivation
Narratives
Poetry
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Records management
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Women
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Written correspondence
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