Tylko dzienniki. Diarystyka kobieca jako przedmiot badań w Polsce i za granicą

The article presents the most important research perspective regarding women’s and girls’ diary writing in English, French and Polish. The analysis discusses major works on the women’s autobiographical writing, monographs and collective works on diaries. Contrary to appearances, at the beginning the autobiographical turn in the feminist criticism did not include the diaries written by girls and women – as paraliterary, imperfect texts. On the fringes of the feminist interest in diaries were the French studies (including Philippe Lejeune, the most outstanding researcher in this subject) and still rudimentary studies in Poland. The lack of interest in the Polish personal diaries, it seems, results from the lack of bibliographic studies and an extensive editorial project, which would disclose a great number of texts of significant value for our diary writing hidden in the archives.