by Paul K Lyons
DESCRIPTOR LISTINGS
social to 1799___ social
from 1800___ travel to 1799___ travel from 1800
domestic___ literary___ love/sex___ political___ religious
people___ self___ society___ family___ health
maritime, military
art, film, music, sport, theatre
exploration, geology, nature, science
archaeology, architecture, creativity,
culture, language
farming, horses, transport, village, weather
commerce, education, law, philosophy, prison,
psychology
childhood, historyeye, nazism, royalty,
slavery
European countries___ non-European
countries
love/sex (sorted
by diary dates)
Surname, first name___ born-died ___ nationality ___ occupation ___ diary
dates
Data ___ Michitsuna, ___ 935c-995c
___ Japanese ___ n/a ___ 954-974
Data ___ Sei, Shonagon ___ 963c-1013g
___ Japanese ___ courtier ___ 986-1000g
Data ___ Shikibu, Izumi ___ n/a-n/a
___ Japanese ___ poet ___ 1003
Data ___ Sarashina, ___ 1009-n/a
___ Japanese ___ n/a ___ 1009-1059
Data ___ Nagako, Fujiwara no ___ 1079g-n/a
___ Japanese ___ courtier ___ 1102-1108g
Data ___ Daibu, ___ n/a-n/a ___ Japanese
___ poet ___ 1170g-1183g
Data ___ Abutsu, ___ 1220c-1283g ___
Japanese ___ courtier, priest ___ 1240 1275
Data ___ Nijo, ___ 1258-1306g ___ Japanese
___ n/a ___ 1271-1306g
Data ___ Ashmole, Elias ___ 1617-1692
___ British ___ scientist, lawyer ___ 1633-1688
Data ___ Pepys, Samuel ___ 1633-1703
___ British ___ civilservant ___ 1660-1669
Data ___ Scott, John ___ 1685c-1708
___ Irish ___ priest ___ 1704-1708
Data ___ Boswell, James ___ 1740-1795
___ British ___ writer, lawyer ___ 1762-1794
Data ___ Bailey, Abigail Abbot
___ 1764-1815 ___ American ___ n/a ___ 1767g-1793g
Data ___ von Fersen, Hans Axel
___ 1755-1810 ___ Swedish ___ soldier, diplomat ___ 1771-1778 1792-1793
Data ___ Butler, Eleanor ___ 1739g-1829
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1785-1788
Data ___ Wynne, Eugenia ___
1780-n/a ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1789-1811
Data ___ Stevens, William
Bagshaw ___ 1756-1800 ___ British ___ teacher, priest ___ 1792-1800
Data ___ Marsden, John ___ 1768-1840
___ British ___ merchant ___ 1795-1816
Data ___ Stendhal, ___ 1783-1842
___ French ___ writer ___ 1801-1814
Data ___ Wynne, Harriet ___
1784-n/a ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1803-1806
Data ___ Rumney, Thomas ___ 1764-1835
___ British ___ farmer ___ 1805-1806
Data ___ Lister, Anne ___ 1791-1840
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1806-1839
Data ___ Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
___ 1797-1851 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1814-1844
Data ___ Ruskin, John ___ 1819-1900
___ British ___ writer ___ 1830 1835-1889
Data ___ Jenkins, ___ 1814g-1862
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1834-1851
Data ___ Sand, George ___ 1804-1876
___ French ___ writer ___ 1834-1868
Data ___ Hall, Emily ___ 1819-1901
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1838-1901
Data ___ Hall, Ellen ___ 1822-1911
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1838-1901
Data ___ Tolstoy, Leo ___ 1828-1910
___ Russian ___ writer ___ 1846-1910
Data ___ Brown, Ford Madox ___
1821-1893 ___ British ___ painter ___ 1847-1866
Data ___ Amiel, Henri Frédéric
___ 1821-1881 ___ Swiss ___ philosopher ___ 1847-1881
Data ___ Leeves, Edward ___ 1795c-1871c
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1849-1850
Data ___ De Goncourt, Edmond
___ 1822-1896 ___ French ___ writer ___ 1851-1896
Data ___ De Goncourt, Jules ___
1830-1870 ___ French ___ writer ___ 1851-1896
Data ___ Cullwick, Hannah ___ 1833-1909
___ British ___ servant ___ 1854-1873
Data ___ Carlyle, Jane Welsh ___
1801-1866 ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1855-1856
Data ___ Bodichon, Barbara Leigh
___ 1827-1891 ___ American ___ writer, reformer ___ 1857-1858
Data ___ Munby, Arthur ___ 1828-1910
___ British ___ poet, lawyer ___ 1859-1903
Data ___ Ward, Lester Frank ___
1841-1913 ___ American ___ scientist, teacher ___ 1860-1870
Data ___ Symonds, John Addington
___ 1840-1893 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1860-1888
Data ___ Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen ___
1840-1922 ___ British ___ diplomat, writer ___ 1888-1914
Data ___ Montgomery, Lucy Maud
___ 1874-1942 ___ Canadian ___ teacher, writer ___ 1889-1942
Data ___ Gide, André ___ 1869-1951
___ French ___ writer ___ 1889-1949
Data ___ Benson, Arthur Christopher
___ 1862-1925 ___ British ___ writer, teacher ___ 1897-1925
Data ___ Mahler-Werfel, Alma ___ 1879-1964
___ Austrian ___ musician ___ 1898-1902
Data ___ Musil, Robert ___ 1880-1942
___ Austrian ___ civilservant, writer ___ 1899-1941
Data ___ Strindberg, August ___
1849-1912 ___ Swedish ___ writer ___ 1900-1908
Data ___ Barbellion, W N P ___
1889-1919 ___ British ___ naturalist ___ 1903-1919
Data ___ Mansfield, Katherine ___
1888-1923 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1904-1922
Data ___ Kafka, Franz ___ 1883-1924
___ Czech ___ writer ___ 1910-1923
Data ___ Waugh, Evelyn ___ 1903-1966
___ British ___ writer ___ 1911-1965
Data ___ Brittain, Vera ___ 1893-1970
___ British ___ writer ___ 1913-1917 1932-1945
Data ___ Brenan, Gerald ___ 1894-1987
___ British (born in Malta) ___ writer ___ 1914-1964
Data ___ Nin, Anaïs ___ 1903-1977
___ French ___ writer ___ 1914-1971
Data ___ Carrington, Dora de Houghton
___ 1893-1932 ___ British ___ painter ___ 1917-1932
Data ___ Reich, Wilhelm ___ 1897-1957
___ Austrian ___ psychologist ___ 1919-1921
Data ___ De Pougy, Liane ___ 1869-1950
___ French ___ n/a ___ 1919-1941
Data ___ Inman, Arthur Crew ___ 1895-1963
___ American ___ n/a ___ 1919-1963
Data ___ Brecht, Bertolt ___ 1898-1956
___ German ___ writer ___ 1920-1922 1934-1955
Data ___ Ackerley, Joseph R ___
1896-1967 ___ British ___ editor ___ 1923-1924, 1948-1957
Data ___ Ritchie, Charles ___ 1906-1995
___ Canadian ___ diplomat ___ 1924-1971
Data ___ Cocteau, Jean ___ 1889-1963
___ French ___ writer, director ___ 1928-1963
Data ___ Friend, Donald ___ 1915-1989
___ Australian ___ artist, writer ___ 1929-1989g
Data ___ Pym, Barbara ___ 1913-1980 ___
British ___ writer ___ 1932-1979
Data ___ Welch, Denton ___ 1915-1948
___ British ___ writer ___ 1933 1942-1948
Data ___ Pavese, Cesare ___ 1908-1950
___ Italian ___ writer ___ 1935-1950
Data ___ Gascoyne, David ___ 1916-2001
___ British ___ poet ___ 1936-1939
Data ___ Isherwood, Christopher
___ 1904-1986 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1939-1960
Data ___ Wyndham, Joan ___ 1922-n/a
___ British ___ writer ___ 1939-1990
Data ___ Malthe-Bruun, Kim ___
1923-1945 ___ Danish ___ sailor ___ 1941-1945
Data ___ Williams, Kenneth ___ 1926-1988
___ British ___ actor ___ 1942-1988
Data ___ Lees-Milne, James ___
1908-1997 ___ British ___ historian, writer ___ 1942-1949, 1953-1954, 1971-1997
Data ___ Kahlo, Frida ___ 1907-1954
___ Mexican ___ painter ___ 1944-1954
Data ___ Pravda, Hana ___ 1918-n/a
___ Czech ___ actor ___ 1945
Data ___ Plath, Sylvia ___ 1932-1963
___ American ___ writer ___ 1950-1962
Data ___ Rorem, Ned ___ 1923-n/a ___
American ___ composer, writer ___ 1951-1999
Data ___ Dali, Salvador ___ 1904-1989
___ Spanish ___ painter ___ 1952-1963
Data ___ Orton, Joe ___ 1933-1967 ___
British ___ writer ___ 1966-1967
Data ___ Wojnarowicz, David ___
1955-1992 ___ American ___ painter ___ 1971-1990
Data ___ Clark, Alan ___ 1928-1999
___ British ___ politician, writer ___ 1972-1999
Data ___ Warhol, Andy ___ 1926-1987
___ American ___ painter, director ___ 1976-1987
Data ___ Jarman, Derek ___ 1942-1994
___ British ___ painter, director ___ 1989-1990
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IMPORTANT NOTES:
These descriptors are only meant as a vague guide
and must be treated with caution. I have not examined
the diaries myself, so the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies,
anthologies and internet biographies. In many cases, the diaries mentioned
on this website will contain good content on descriptor topics for which
they have not been listed. There are three types of descriptors: those which
describe broad themes of a diary in general (i.e. literary, social, military
or travel); subjects where the topic is known to have been of some concern
to the diarist (such as weather, education or slavery); and countries outside
of the diarist's home nation (where the diarist is known to have written
about them). The descriptor 'society' is for diaries which record
details about what, for want of a better term, could be called high society,
while 'social' is a descriptor for diaries which record details about
the behaviour and habits of the less privileged. 'Literary' is a
descriptor for diaries considered literary or about the literary world.
'People' is a descriptor for diaries which contain references to
famous characters; and 'historyeye' is a term I've used for diarists
writing with first hand experience of historically famous events.