1943 Diary

Cover 1943 Diary

Cover 1943 Diary

Powell’s long friendship with Edmund Wilson deepens and there are several stories about him in this diary. Powell evaluates her own work: “Reading Whither I was horrified at how completely hopeless and utterly devoid of promise it was—far worse than what I had written at 13. On the other hand a re-reading of Dance Night persuaded me it is my best book—material, mood, prose and structure by all odds the best.”