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Title Page  \n2. The Lydia Steptoe Stories  \n3. Introduction  \n4. The Diary of a Dangerous Child  \n5. The Diary of a Small Boy  \n6. Madame Grows Older: A Journal at the Dangerous Age  \n7. About Faber Stories  \n8. About the Author  \n9. Copyright  \nThe Lydia Steptoe Stories  \nDjuna Barnes, the renowned author of the modernist novel Nightwood, wrote three short stories under the pseudonym ‘Lydia Steptoe’. They appeared in different periodicals over three consecutive years in the 1920s; this is the first time they have been brought together as a set.  \nAll written in ironic diary form, the Steptoe stories show Barnes at her wittiest and least self-consciously ‘literary’, a full decade before Nightwood was edited by T. S. Eliot and published by Faber.  \nThe Diary of a Dangerous Child  \nSeptember first:  \nToday I am fourteen: time flies: women must grow old.  \nToday I have done my hair in a different way and asked myself a question: “What shall be my destiny?”  \nBecause today I have placed my childhood behind me, and have faced the realities.  \nMy uncle from Glasgow, with the square whiskers and the dull voice, is bringing pheasants for my mother. I shall sit in silence during the meal and think. Perhaps someone, sensitive to growth, will ask in a tense voice,“What makes you look thoughtful, Olga?”  \nIf this should be the case, I shall tell.  \nYes, I shall break the silence.  \nFor sooner or later they must know that I am become furtive.  \nBy this I mean that I am debating with myself whether I shall place myself in some good man’s hands and become a mother, or if I shall become wanton and go out in the world and make a place for myself.  \nSomehow I think I shall become a wanton.  \nIt is more to my taste. At least I think it is.  \nI have tried to curb this inner knowledge by fighting down that bright look in my eyes as I stand before the mirror, but not ten minutes later I have been cutting into lemons for my freckles.  \n“Ah woman, thy name, etc.”—  \nSeptember third:  \nI could not write in my diary yesterday, my hands trembled and I started at every little thing. I think this shows that I am going to be anemic just as soon as I’m old enough to afford it.  \nThis is a good thing; I shall get what I want. Yes, I am glad that I tremble early. Perhaps I am getting introspective. One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.  \nI shall think more about this tonight when mother puts the light out and I can eat a cream slowly. Some of my best thoughts have come tome this way.  \nAh! What ideas have I not had eating creams slowly, luxuriously.  \nSeptember tenth:  \nMany days have passed; I have written nothing. Can it be that I have changed? I will hold this thought solitary for a day.  \nSeptember eleventh:  \nYes, I have changed. I found that I owed it to the family.  \nI will explain myself. Father is a lawyer; mother is in society.  \nImagine how it might look to the outer world if I should go around looking as if I held a secret.  \nIf the human eye were to fall upon this page I might be so easily misunderstood.  \nWhat shame I might bring down upon my father ’s head—on my mother ’s too, if you want to take the whole matter in a large sweeping way—just by my tendency to precocity.  \nI should be an idiot for their sakes.  \nI will be!  \nOctober fourth:  \nI have succeeded. No one guesses that my mind teems. No one suspects that I have come into my own, as they say.  \nBut I have. I came into it this afternoon when the diplomat from Brazil called.  \nMy childhood is but a memory.  \nHis name is Don Pasos Dilemma. He has great intelligence in one eye; the other is preoccupied with a monocle. He has comfortable spaces between his front teeth, and he talks in a soft drawl that makes one want to wear satin dresses.  \nHe is courting my sister.  \nMy sister is an extremely ordinary girl, older than I, it is true, but","cbCaivouvqNLu2lk","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivouvqNLu2lk","pdf",458739,27,"English","# Contents\n## The Lydia Steptoe Stories\n## Introduction\n## The Diary of a Dangerous Child\n## The Diary of a Small Boy\n## Madame Grows Older: A Journal at the Dangerous Age\n## About Faber Stories\n## About the Author\n## Copyright","[{\"question\":\"Who wrote the Lydia Steptoe stories and what name did the author use?\",\"answer\":\"Djuna Barnes wrote the stories under the pseudonym “Lydia Steptoe.”\"},{\"question\":\"What literary form unifies the three stories in this collection?\",\"answer\":\"They are all written in an ironic diary form.\"},{\"question\":\"When were the stories first published before being collected together?\",\"answer\":\"They appeared in different periodicals over three consecutive years in the 1920s, and this is the first time they are brought together as a set.\"}]","The Lydia Steptoe Stories - Short Stories - Modernist Ironic Diary Collection | PDF",1791064827,42]