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
family (sorted
by diary dates)
Surname, first name___ born-died ___ nationality ___ occupation ___ diary
dates
Data ___ Michitsuna, ___ 935c-995c
___ Japanese ___ n/a ___ 954-974
Data ___ Shikibu, Murasaki ___
973g-1025g ___ Japanese ___ n/a ___ 1007-1010
Data ___ Lambarde, William ___ 1536-1601
___ British ___ antiquary ___ 1504-1601g
Data ___ Edward VI, ___ 1537-1553
___ British ___ sovereign ___ 1549-1552
Data ___ Winthrop, Adam ___ 1548-1623
___ British ___ lawyer ___ 1586-1617
Data ___ Rogers, Richard ___ 1550g-1618
___ British ___ priest ___ 1587-1590
Data ___ Furse, Robert ___ n/a-1593
___ British ___ farmer ___ 1593
Data ___ Oglander, John ___ 1585-1655
___ British ___ civilservant ___ 1595-1648
Data ___ Powell, Walter ___ 1581-1656
___ British ___ farmer ___ 1603-1655
Data ___ Wallington, Nehemiah
___ 1598-1658 ___ British ___ craftsperson ___ 1630-1658
Data ___ Slingsby, Henry ___ 1601-1658
___ British ___ politician ___ 1638-1648
Data ___ Cooper, Anthony Ashley
___ 1621-1683 ___ British ___ politician ___ 1646-1650
Data ___ Mordaunt, Elizabeth ___
1630c-1679 ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1656-1678
Data ___ Pepys, Samuel ___ 1633-1703
___ British ___ civilservant ___ 1660-1669
Data ___ Isham, Thomas ___ 1657-1681
___ British ___ landowner ___ 1671-1673
Data ___ Freke, Elizabeth ___ 1641-1714
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1671-1714
Data ___ Sewall, Samuel ___ 1652-1730
___ British ___ merchant ___ 1673-1729
Data ___ Heywood, Oliver ___ 1630-1702
___ British ___ priest ___ 1666-1702
Data ___ Burrell, Timothy ___ 1643-1717
___ British ___ lawyer ___ 1686-1717
Data ___ Calverley, Walter ___
1670-1749 ___ British ___ landowner, manufacturer ___ 1692-1722
Data ___ Morris, Claver ___ 1659-1727
___ British ___ doctor ___ 1709-1710 1718-1726
Data ___ Parkman, Ebenezer ___ 1703-1782
___ American ___ priest ___ 1719-1782
Data ___ Byrom, John ___ 1692-1763
___ British ___ writer ___ 1722-1744
Data ___ Byrom, Elizabeth ___ 1722-1801
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1745-1746
Data ___ Jackson, Ralph ___ 1736-1790
___ British ___ merchant ___ 1753-1780
Data ___ Powys, Caroline ___ 1737-1808
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1756-1808
Data ___ Simcoe, Elizabeth ___ 1762-1850
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1791-1796
Data ___ Coke, Mary ___ 1727-1811 ___
British ___ n/a ___ 1766-1791
Data ___ Thrale, Hester Lynch Piozzi
___ 1741-1821 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1766-1809
Data ___ Bailey, Abigail Abbot
___ 1764-1815 ___ American ___ n/a ___ 1767g-1793g
Data ___ Winslow, Anna Green ___
1759-1779 ___ Canadian ___ n/a ___ 1771
Data ___ Leadbeater, Mary ___
1758-1826 ___ Irish ___ n/a ___ 1774-1826
Data ___ Dyott, William ___ 1761-1846
___ British ___ soldier ___ 1781-1845
Data ___ Ballard, Martha ___ 1735-1812
___ American ___ nurse ___ 1785-1812
Data ___ Wynne, Eugenia ___
1780-n/a ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1789-1811
Data ___ Fremantle, Elizabeth ___
1779-1857 ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1789-1857
Data ___ Fuller, Elizabeth ___ 1775-1856
___ American ___ n/a ___ 1790-1792
Data ___ Rawdon, Francis ___ 1754-1826
___ British ___ soldier, diplomat ___ 1794-1795 1813-1818
Data ___ Roden, Anne ___ 1730-1802
___ Irish ___ n/a ___ 1794-1802
Data ___ Witts, Francis Edward ___
1783-1854 ___ British ___ priest ___ 1795c-1854
Data ___ Fry, Elizabeth ___ 1780-1845
___ British ___ reformer ___ 1797-1845
Data ___ Fortescue, Marianne ___
1767-1849 ___ Irish ___ n/a ___ 1798
Data ___ Ward, Thomas Asline ___
1781-1871 ___ British ___ tradesman ___ 1800-1871
Data ___ Nugent, Maria ___ 1771-1834
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1801-1816
Data ___ Wynne, Harriet ___
1784-n/a ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1803-1806
Data ___ Skinner, John ___ 1772-1839
___ British ___ priest, antiquary ___ 1803-1834
Data ___ Rumney, Thomas ___ 1764-1835
___ British ___ farmer ___ 1805-1806
Data ___ McClintock, Henry ___
1787g-1843 ___ Irish ___ surveyor ___ 1805-1843
Data ___ White, Mary Avery ___ n/a-1861
___ American ___ craftsperson ___ 1805-1844
Data ___ Dearborn, Sarah Bowdoin
___ n/a-n/a ___ American ___ n/a ___ 1806-1808 1823-1824
Data ___ Haydon, Benjamin ___ 1786-1846
___ British ___ painter ___ 1808-1846
Data ___ Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
___ 1797-1851 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1814-1844
Data ___ Moore, Thomas ___ 1779-1852
___ Irish ___ writer ___ 1814-1847
Data ___ Newton, Benjamin ___ 1761-1830
___ British ___ priest ___ 1816-1818
Data ___ Fox, Henry Edward ___ 1802-1859
___ British ___ diplomat ___ 1818-1830
Data ___ Clinton, Henry Fynes ___
1781-1852 ___ British ___ historian ___ 1819-1852
Data ___ Emerson, Ralph Waldo
___ 1803-1882 ___ American ___ writer, priest ___ 1820-1875
Data ___ Browne, Mary ___ 1807-1833
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1821
Data ___ Scott, Walter ___ 1771-1832
___ British ___ writer ___ 1825-1832
Data ___ Cooper, Antony Ashley ___
1801-1885 ___ British ___ politician ___ 1825-1885
Data ___ Wilberforce, Samuel
___ 1805-1873 ___ British ___ priest ___ 1830-1873
Data ___ Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
___ 1806-1861 ___ British ___ poet ___ 1831-1832
Data ___ Long, Zadoc ___ 1800-1873 ___
American ___ tradesman ___ 1826g-1873g
Data ___ Shore, Emily ___ 1819-1839
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1831-1839
Data ___ Strong, George Templeton
___ 1820-1875 ___ American ___ lawyer ___ 1835-1875
Data ___ Clark, Horace ___ 1781-1842
___ American ___ farmer ___ 1836-1837
Data ___ Hall, Emily ___ 1819-1901
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1838-1901
Data ___ Hall, Ellen ___ 1822-1911
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1838-1901
Data ___ Smith, Elizabeth ___ 1797-1885
___ British ___ teacher ___ 1840-1850
Data ___ Hargrave, Letitia ___ n/a-1854
___ Canadian ___ n/a ___ 1840-1851
Data ___ Whistler, Anna Mathilda
___ 1804-1881 ___ American ___ n/a ___ 1843-1849
Data ___ Alcott, Louisa May ___ 1832-1888
___ American ___ writer ___ 1843-1888
Data ___ Preus, Linka ___ 1829-1880
___ Norwegian ___ n/a ___ 1845-1864
Data ___ Tolstoy, Leo ___ 1828-1910
___ Russian ___ writer ___ 1846-1910
Data ___ Peterson, Andrew ___ 1818-1898
___ Swedish ___ farmer ___ 1850 1854g-1898g
Data ___ Coon, Polly Lavinia ___ 1825-1898
___ American ___ n/a ___ 1852
Data ___ Carlyle, Jane Welsh ___
1801-1866 ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1855-1856
Data ___ Munby, Arthur ___ 1828-1910
___ British ___ poet, lawyer ___ 1859-1903
Data ___ Tolstoy, Sofia ___
1844-1919 ___ Russian ___ n/a ___ 1860-1919
Data ___ Williamson, Alice ___
1844c-1869 ___ American ___ n/a ___ 1864
Data ___ Dostoevsky, Anna Grigoryevna
___ 1846-1918 ___ Russian ___ n/a ___ 1867
Data ___ Harris, Elizabeth Johnson
___ 1867-1923 ___ American ___ n/a ___ 1867-1923
Data ___ Wagner, Cosima Liszt ___
1837-1930 ___ Italian ___ n/a ___ 1869-1883
Data ___ Lagerlöf, Selma ___
1858-1940 ___ Swedish ___ writer ___ 1873
Data ___ Desaulles, Henriette ___
1860-1946 ___ Canadian ___ writer ___ 1874-1881
Data ___ Benson, Edward White ___
1829-1896 ___ British ___ teacher, priest ___ 1878-1896
Data ___ Potter, Beatrix ___ 1866-1943
___ British ___ writer, painter ___ 1881-1897
Data ___ James, Alice ___ 1848-1892
___ American ___ n/a ___ 1889-1892
Data ___ Montgomery, Lucy Maud
___ 1874-1942 ___ Canadian ___ teacher, writer ___ 1889-1942
Data ___ Peerless, Henry ___ 1866-1930
___ British ___ merchant ___ 1891-1920
Data ___ King, William Lyon Mackenzie
___ 1874-1950 ___ Canadian ___ politician ___ 1893-1950
Data ___ Waugh, Evelyn ___ 1903-1966
___ British ___ writer ___ 1911-1965
Data ___ Brittain, Vera ___ 1893-1970
___ British ___ writer ___ 1913-1917 1932-1945
Data ___ Ranfurly, Hermione ___
1913-2001 ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1913-1945
Data ___ Stevenson, Frances
___ 1888-1972 ___ British ___ teacher ___ 1914-1936
Data ___ Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
___ 1906-2001 ___ American ___ aviator, writer ___ 1922-1944
Data ___ Ackerley, Joseph Randolph
___ 1896-1967 ___ British ___ editor ___ 1923-1924, 1948-1957
Data ___ Goebbels, Paul Josef ___
1897-1945 ___ German ___ politician ___ 1925-1926 1939-1941
Data ___ Delafield, E M ___ 1890-1943
___ British ___ writer ___ 1930-1940g
Data ___ Mencken, Henry Louis ___
1880-1956 ___ American ___ writer, editor ___ 1930-1948
Data ___ Powell, Dawn ___ 1897-1965
___ American ___ writer ___ 1931-1965
Data ___ Muggeridge, Malcolm ___
1903-1990 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1932-1962
Data ___ Klemperer, Victor ___
1881-1960 ___ German ___ teacher ___ 1933-1945
Data ___ Smart, Elizabeth ___ 1913-1986
___ Canadian ___ writer ___ 1933-1986
Data ___ Senesh, Hanna ___ 1921-1944
___ Hungarian ___ writer, soldier ___ 1934-1944
Data ___ Mitchison, Naomi ___ 1897-1999
___ British ___ writer ___ 1934 1939-1945
Data ___ Channon, Henry ___ 1897-1958
___ American ___ politician ___ 1934-1953
Data ___ Last, Nella ___ 1890-1968 ___
British ___ craftsperson ___ 1939-1965
Data ___ Wyndham, Joan ___ 1922-n/a
___ British ___ writer ___ 1939-1990
Data ___ Partridge, Frances ___
1900-2002 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1940-1971
Data ___ Malthe-Bruun, Kim ___
1923-1945 ___ Danish ___ sailor ___ 1941-1945
Data ___ Frank, Anne ___ 1929-1945
___ German ___ n/a ___ 1942-1944
Data ___ Origo, Iris ___ 1902-1988
___ British ___ writer ___ 1943-1944
Data ___ Gladwyn, Cynthia ___ 1898-1990
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1946-1971
Data ___ Casson, Hugh ___ 1910-1999
___ British ___ architect ___ 1954 1980
Data ___ de Jesus, Carolina Maria
___ 1914-1977 ___ Brazilian ___ writer ___ 1955-1958
Data ___ Oswald, Lee Harvey ___ 1939-1963
___ American ___ n/a ___ 1959-1962
Data ___ Maclean, Ian ___ 1898-1973
___ British ___ sailor ___ 1960 1980
Data ___ Benn, Anthony ___ 1925-n/a
___ British ___ politician ___ 1963-2001
Data ___ Bennett, Alan ___ 1934-n/a
___ British ___ writer ___ 1969-1990
Data ___ Boyle, Jimmy ___ 1944-n/a
___ British ___ sculptor, writer ___ 1974-1982
Data ___ Coppola, Eleanor ___ 1936-n/a
___ American ___ designer ___ 1976-1979
Data ___ Maclean, Alasdair ___
1926-n/a ___ British ___ poet ___ 1979-1980
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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.