She struggled with housework and the mundane expectations of women at the time.Īfter marriage to the banker Hugh Guiler in 1923, Nin moved to Paris, starting a liaison with the American writer Henry Miller. Her father, well-known musician Joaquin Nin, had abandoned the family to precarious but genteel poverty. In 1920, Nin was also 17, living in New York, adjusting to American life after a childhood in France and Spain. The unexpurgated diaries started to appear in 1986. Four volumes of her early diaries, written before 1931, were later published in the 1980s.
Initially, many of them were edited and published as seven expurgated volumes in the 1960s. At her death in 1977, the diaries filled around 150 handwritten notebooks. Nin started her first diary in 1914 at the age of 11. The book that changed me: I'm a historian but Tony Birch's poetry opened my eyes to confronting truths about the past As I regularly committed the cardinal social sin of recounting my dreams over breakfast, she seemed a soulmate across oceans and generations. She dreamed in slumber and allowed her dreams to leak into the day. This girl was ambitious, already dreaming of becoming a writer.Īnaïs Nin dreamed, in all senses. It laid out all the doubts and despairs of a girl just my age. I had never read a book like this before. I think I had heard her name somewhere, but wasn’t sure who she was.
On the cover was a demure girl with a slightly quizzical expression.
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