Strother, ___ 1763g-n/a ___ British ___ tradesman

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
There is very little information about Strother on the internet. Ponsonby includes a few extracts and says the diary deserves special notice 'as a production of psychological value owing to the light it throws on the personality of its obscure young author, whose Christian name even we do not know'. Strother was a draper's assistant who, at 15, moved to Hull from York. During the last of his six years in Hull, he wrote a diary, but then, before returning to York, stopped making entries because he didn't consider it 'proper' for 'a tradesman to keep a journal'. (Richard Strother has contacted The Diary Junction to say that Strother's first name was in fact Marmaduke.)
No biography link
No Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1784-1785 ___ social weather health self

WEB TEXT LINKS
about and some extracts

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
British Library, Manuscript Collections

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Strother's Diary
English Diaries

May 2005, August 2008, September 2012, April 2013
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