Recent critic Cynthia Zarin
argues that through the Diary of a Provincial Lady books, EMDspawned a genre that would later be imitated by writers such as Shirley Jackson
, publishing in the 1950s, and...
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By late 1996: Helen Fielding hit the best-selling jackpot...
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By late 1996
Helen Fielding
hit the best-selling jackpot when her novelBridget Jones's Diary (originally a newspaper column begun the previous year) was published as a book.
