num_pages: 224
description: This authentic diary, kept by a Viennese schoolgirl when she was eleven to fourteen years old, first appeared publicly in 1919. Richly expressive and emotionally moving, it intimately chronicles her passage from childhood to puberty with frankness, lucidity, and an honesty that scandalized the anonymous author's contemporaries.Originally presented by Sigmund Freud as a specimen to analyze and observe the development of a young female during the vital years of personal growth, the book relates, in a gently ironic tone, daily encounters and experiences as well as private conversations and exchanged intimacies with a close friend."So charming, so serious, and so artless, that it cannot fail to be of supreme interest to educationists and psychologists."—Sigmund Freud"Psychotherapists and analysts will enjoy debating the implications of the document's frank evocation of the sexual awakening of a cosseted girl."— Publisher's Weekly
language: English
title: A Young Girl's Diary: Prefaced with a Letter by Sigmund Freud
titlecomplete: A Young Girl's Diary: Prefaced with a Letter by Sigmund Freud
characters: Anneliese von Zerkwitz, Erna, Berta Franke, Jeno, Rita (Grete/Gretl/Gretel Lainer, AKA Grete Lanier von Lainsheim), Erno, Dora (Thea, Inspee), Robert Cambourne, Ada Hermann, Edith Bergler, Nelly, Frau Dr. M. (Frau Doktor Mallburg), Rita's father, Lizzi (Hella's older sister), Resi, Viktor, Berta Lainer (Rita's mom), Anastasia Klastoschek (the Gold Fairy), Lisel Schrotter, Liesel, Lajos, Olga, Mali, Hella (Helene), Oswald (Rita's brother)
genres: Classics, Historical, Psychology, Diary, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 456
places: Vienna
publisher: Dover Publications