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This category concerns different classes, which possibly will be separated later on. For the moment it contains diaries, as well as private correspondence and autobiography – by men as well as by women.
Both groups are interesting in different ways: women’s private letters can be seen as replacement for impossible literary critique and participation in public debates. Not always however: Belle de Zuylen laughing at Lucie Bouiller seems typical for a private, and even a secret correspondence. As for letters by men: in some cases expressed opinions are to be confronted to what had been said in public: Potgieter for example, writing about George Sand in De Gids and in a letter to his friend and colleague Busken Huet.
Nowadays, this category of texts is sometimes well disclosed, in modern editions with beautiful indexes, or even in online searchable presentation.
Egodocuments in the Netherlands in database WomenWriters.
Male:
Correspondence Busken Huet
Female:
Correspondence of Betje Wolff and Aagje Deken
Correspondence of Isabelle de Charrière / Belle de Zuylen
Correspondence of A.L.G. Bosboom-Toussaint
Egodocuments G. Kapteijn-Muysken
SvD, April 2007