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
health (sorted
by diary dates)
Surname, first name___ born-died ___ nationality ___ occupation ___ diary
dates
Data ___ Nagako, Fujiwara no ___
1079g-n/a ___ Japanese ___ courtier ___ 1102-1108g
Data ___ Anonymous, Paris ___
n/a-n/a ___ French ___ n/a ___ 1405-1449
Data ___ Landucci, Luca ___ 1436g-1516
___ Italian ___ tradesman ___ 1450-1516
Data ___ Gouberville, Gilles
Picot ___ 1521-1578 ___ French ___ landowner ___ 1549-1562
Data ___ Dee, John ___ 1527-1608 ___
British ___ teacher, scientist ___ 1554-1601
Data ___ De Montaigne, Michel
___ 1533-1592 ___ French ___ lawyer ___ 1580-1581
Data ___ Rogers, Richard ___ 1550g-1618
___ British ___ priest ___ 1587-1590
Data ___ Hoby, Margaret ___ 1570-1633
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1599-1605
Data ___ Clifford, Anne ___ 1590-1676
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1603-1619
Data ___ Powell, Walter ___ 1581-1656
___ British ___ farmer ___ 1603-1655
Data ___ Keeling, William ___ 1578-1620
___ British ___ sailor ___ 1607 1615-1617
Data ___ Munk, Jens ___ 1579-1628 ___
Danish ___ explorer ___ 1619-1620
Data ___ Laud, William ___ 1573-1645
___ British ___ priest ___ 1621-1645
Data ___ Ashmole, Elias ___ 1617-1692
___ British ___ scientist, lawyer ___ 1633-1688
Data ___ Newcombe, Henry ___ 1627-1695
___ British ___ priest ___ 1644-1695
Data ___ Eyre, Adam ___ 1614-1661 ___
British ___ soldier ___ 1646-1649
Data ___ Cooper, Anthony Ashley
___ 1621-1683 ___ British ___ politician ___ 1646-1650
Data ___ Moore, Giles ___ 1635-1679
___ British ___ priest ___ 1655-1679
Data ___ Mordaunt, Elizabeth ___
1630c-1679 ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1656-1678
Data ___ Wood, Anthony ___ 1632-1695
___ British ___ antiquary ___ 1657-1695
Data ___ Pepys, Samuel ___ 1633-1703
___ British ___ civilservant ___ 1660-1669
Data ___ Freke, Elizabeth ___ 1641-1714
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1671-1714
Data ___ Newdigate, Richard ___
1644-1710 ___ British ___ landowner ___ 1680-1709
Data ___ Basho, Matsuo ___ 1644-1694
___ Japanese ___ poet ___ 1684-1691
Data ___ Burrell, Timothy ___ 1643-1717
___ British ___ lawyer ___ 1686-1717
Data ___ Morris, Claver ___ 1659-1727
___ British ___ doctor ___ 1709-1710 1718-1726
Data ___ Swift, Jonathan ___ 1667-1745
___ Irish ___ writer, priest ___ 1710-1713
Data ___ Parkman, Ebenezer ___ 1703-1782
___ American ___ priest ___ 1719-1782
Data ___ Roggeveen, Jakob ___ 1659-1729
___ Dutch ___ sailor ___ 1721-1722
Data ___ Byrom, John ___ 1692-1763
___ British ___ writer ___ 1722-1744
Data ___ Hobson, John ___ n/a-1735
___ British ___ landowner ___ 1725-1735
Data ___ Washington, George ___
1732-1799 ___ American ___ soldier, politician ___ 1748-1799
Data ___ Baker, John ___ 1712-1779
___ British ___ lawyer ___ 1750-1779
Data ___ Rutty, John ___ 1698-1774
___ British ___ doctor ___ 1753-1774
Data ___ Fielding, Henry ___ 1707-1754
___ British ___ writer ___ 1754
Data ___ Bray, William ___ 1736-1832
___ British ___ antiquary ___ 1756-1800
Data ___ Woodforde, James ___
1740-1803 ___ British ___ priest ___ 1759-1802
Data ___ Boswell, James ___ 1740-1795
___ British ___ writer, lawyer ___ 1762-1794
Data ___ Coke, Mary ___ 1727-1811 ___
British ___ n/a ___ 1766-1791
Data ___ Thrale, Hester Lynch Piozzi
___ 1741-1821 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1766-1809
Data ___ Cook, James ___ 1728-1779
___ British ___ sailor ___ 1768-1779
Data ___ Winslow, Anna Green ___
1759-1779 ___ Canadian ___ n/a ___ 1771
Data ___ Scott, John ___ 1739-1798
___ Irish ___ solicitor, politician ___ 1774-1798
Data ___ Jones, William ___ 1755-1821
___ British ___ priest ___ 1774-1821
Data ___ Strother, ___ 1763g-n/a
___ British ___ tradesman ___ 1784-1785
Data ___ Ballard, Martha ___ 1735-1812
___ American ___ nurse ___ 1785-1812
Data ___ Fremantle, Elizabeth ___
1779-1857 ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1789-1857
Data ___ Teedon, Samuel ___ n/a-1798
___ British ___ teacher ___ 1791-1794
Data ___ Roden, Anne ___ 1730-1802
___ Irish ___ n/a ___ 1794-1802
Data ___ Fry, Elizabeth ___ 1780-1845
___ British ___ reformer ___ 1797-1845
Data ___ Nugent, Maria ___ 1771-1834
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1801-1816
Data ___ McClintock, Henry ___
1787g-1843 ___ Irish ___ surveyor ___ 1805-1843
Data ___ White, Mary Avery ___ n/a-1861
___ American ___ craftsperson ___ 1805-1844
Data ___ Bisshopp, Katherine ___
1791-1871 ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1808-1834
Data ___ Cummins, Nicholas M ___
1783-1838 ___ Irish ___ tradesman ___ 1810-1821 1834 1837
Data ___ Byron, George ___ 1788-1824
___ British ___ writer ___ 1813-1814 1816 1821
Data ___ Greville, Charles Cavendish
Fulke ___ 1794-1865 ___ British ___ civilservant ___ 1814-1860
Data ___ Scott, Walter ___ 1771-1832
___ British ___ writer ___ 1825-1832
Data ___ Gladstone, William ___
1809-1898 ___ British ___ politician ___ 1826-1896
Data ___ Ruskin, John ___ 1819-1900
___ British ___ writer ___ 1830 1835-1889
Data ___ Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
___ 1806-1861 ___ British ___ poet ___ 1831-1832
Data ___ Hargrave, Letitia ___ n/a-1854
___ Canadian ___ n/a ___ 1840-1851
Data ___ Nicholson, Asenath ___
1796c-1855 ___ American ___ teacher, reformer ___ 1847-1849
Data ___ Coon, Polly Lavinia ___ 1825-1898
___ American ___ n/a ___ 1852
Data ___ Eliot, George ___ 1819-1880
___ British ___ writer ___ 1855-1877
Data ___ Symonds, John Addington
___ 1840-1893 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1860-1888
Data ___ Tolstoy, Sofia ___
1844-1919 ___ Russian ___ n/a ___ 1860-1919
Data ___ Wagner, Cosima Liszt ___
1837-1930 ___ Italian ___ n/a ___ 1869-1883
Data ___ Bashkirtseff, Marie
___ 1858-1884 ___ Russian ___ painter ___ 1873-1884
Data ___ Beaman, Libby ___ n/a-1932
___ American ___ teacher ___ 1879-1880
Data ___ James, Alice ___ 1848-1892
___ American ___ n/a ___ 1889-1892
Data ___ Wilson, Edward ___ 1872-1912
___ British ___ doctor, naturalist ___ 1889-1912
Data ___ Gide, André ___ 1869-1951
___ French ___ writer ___ 1889-1949
Data ___ Hubbard, Leonidas ___
1872-1903 ___ American ___ writer ___ 1903
Data ___ Barbellion, W N P ___
1889-1919 ___ British ___ naturalist ___ 1903-1919
Data ___ Mansfield, Katherine ___
1888-1923 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1904-1922
Data ___ Macnaughton, Sarah ___
1850-1916 ___ British ___ nurse, writer ___ 1914-1916
Data ___ Farmborough, Florence
___ 1887-1978 ___ British ___ nurse ___ 1914-1918
Data ___ Inman, Arthur Crew ___ 1895-1963
___ American ___ n/a ___ 1919-1963
Data ___ Cocteau, Jean ___ 1889-1963
___ French ___ writer, director ___ 1928-1963
Data ___ Mencken, Henry Louis ___
1880-1956 ___ American ___ writer, editor ___ 1930-1948
Data ___ Pym, Barbara ___ 1913-1980 ___
British ___ writer ___ 1932-1979
Data ___ Welch, Denton ___ 1915-1948
___ British ___ writer ___ 1933 1942-1948
Data ___ Klemperer, Victor ___
1881-1960 ___ German ___ teacher ___ 1933-1945
Data ___ Rabe, John ___ 1882-1949 ___
German ___ merchant ___ 1937-1938
Data ___ Williams, Kenneth ___ 1926-1988
___ British ___ actor ___ 1942-1988
Data ___ Camus, Albert ___ 1913-1960
___ Algerian ___ writer ___ 1946 1949
Data ___ Guevara, Ernesto ___ 1928-1967
___ Argentinian ___ politician ___ 1951-1952 1966-1967
Data ___ Tram, Dang Thuy ___ 1942-1970
___ Vietnamese ___ doctor ___ 1968-1970
Data ___ Wojnarowicz, David ___
1955-1992 ___ American ___ painter ___ 1971-1990
Data ___ Warhol, Andy ___ 1926-1987
___ American ___ painter, director ___ 1976-1987
Data ___ Bowles, Paul ___ 1910-1999
___ American ___ writer ___ 1987-1989
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.