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When Life Writing Becomes Death Writing: The Journal of Emily Shore

The recently discovered manuscript of Emily Shore's last journal, 1839, yields a number of interesting insights into the Victorian illness narrative. Shore inscribed this final journal in Madeira, where she had repaired to try to recover from tuberculosis. Unfortunately, she died there, only a few months after her arrival. Journal entries for Shore's last months are both poignant and revealing in terms of their narrative strategies. The last journal begins as a kind of travel narrative and study of island and family life, but it is transformed first into a careful relational narrative about others afflicted with the disease and then into a kind of spiritual autobiography. It ends abruptly with staccato entries made in an altered hand as Shore tries to record her last thoughts while fatally ill.