When we read a text, "we make it part of our story to the extent that we recognise in it an expression of our own story-ness, the serious process of fictionalisation to which we owe a sense of selfhood" (
Roger Grainger, Prospero's Island, 2010). Hence: "It was her own story that she had read!" From "A Faulty Heroine" by Nora M. Marris, in Cassell's, 1893.