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
literary (sorted
by diary dates)
Surname, first name___ born-died ___ nationality ___ occupation ___ diary
dates
Data ___ Tsurayuki, Kino ___
869-945 ___ Japanese ___ poet, diplomat ___ 935
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 ___ Khusraw, Nasir-i ___ 1004-1088
___ Iranian ___ civilservant, poet ___ 1045-1052
Data ___ Daibu, ___ n/a-n/a ___ Japanese
___ poet ___ 1170g-1183g
Data ___ Abutsu, ___ 1220c-1283g ___
Japanese ___ courtier, priest ___ 1240 1275
Data ___ Sogi, ___ 1421g-1501 ___ Japanese
___ priest, writer ___ 1468 1480
Data ___ Socho, Saiokuken ___ 1448-1532
___ Japanese ___ writer ___ 1501 1515 1522-1527
Data ___ Choshoshi, Kinoshita ___
1569-1649 ___ Japanese ___ soldier, poet ___ 1592
Data ___ Razan, Hayashi ___ 1583-1657
___ Japanese ___ philosopher, priest ___ 1616
Data ___ Slingsby, Henry ___ 1601-1658
___ British ___ politician ___ 1638-1648
Data ___ Basho, Matsuo ___ 1644-1694
___ Japanese ___ poet ___ 1684-1691
Data ___ Wesley, Charles ___
1707-1788 ___ British ___ priest ___ 1736-1756
Data ___ Bubb Dodington, George ___
1691-1762 ___ British ___ politician ___ 1749-1761
Data ___ Fielding, Henry ___ 1707-1754
___ British ___ writer ___ 1754
Data ___ Boswell, James ___ 1740-1795
___ British ___ writer, lawyer ___ 1762-1794
Data ___ Burney, Fanny ___ 1752-1840
___ British ___ writer ___ 1768-1819
Data ___ Temple, William Johnstone
___ 1739-1796 ___ British ___ priest ___ 1780-1796
Data ___ Butler, Eleanor ___ 1739g-1829
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1785-1788
Data ___ Goethe, Johann Wolfgang ___
1749-1832 ___ German ___ civilservant, writer ___ 1786-1788
Data ___ Green, Thomas ___ 1769-1825
___ British ___ lawyer ___ 1796-1811
Data ___ Wordsworth, Dorothy ___
1771-1855 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1798-1828
Data ___ Stendhal, ___ 1783-1842
___ French ___ writer ___ 1801-1814
Data ___ Irving, Washington ___ 1783-1859
___ American ___ writer ___ 1803-1842
Data ___ Hunter, Joseph ___ 1783-1861
___ British ___ antiquary ___ 1806
Data ___ Hobhouse, John Cam ___
1786-1869 ___ British ___ politician ___ 1809-1852
Data ___ Byron, George ___ 1788-1824
___ British ___ writer ___ 1813-1814 1816 1821
Data ___ Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
___ 1797-1851 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1814-1844
Data ___ Moore, Thomas ___ 1779-1852
___ Irish ___ writer ___ 1814-1847
Data ___ Greville, Charles Cavendish
Fulke ___ 1794-1865 ___ British ___ civilservant ___ 1814-1860
Data ___ Clinton, Henry Fynes ___
1781-1852 ___ British ___ historian ___ 1819-1852
Data ___ Emerson, Ralph Waldo
___ 1803-1882 ___ American ___ writer, priest ___ 1820-1875
Data ___ Scott, Walter ___ 1771-1832
___ British ___ writer ___ 1825-1832
Data ___ Ruskin, John ___ 1819-1900
___ British ___ writer ___ 1830 1835-1889
Data ___ Kemble, Fanny ___ 1809-1893
___ British ___ actor ___ 1831-1839
Data ___ Macready, William Charles
___ 1793-1873 ___ British ___ actor ___ 1833-1851
Data ___ Sand, George ___ 1804-1876
___ French ___ writer ___ 1834-1868
Data ___ Fox, Caroline ___ 1819-1871
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1835-1867
Data ___ Thoreau, Henry ___ 1817-1862
___ American ___ writer, philosopher, naturalist ___ 1837-1861
Data ___ Macaulay, Thomas Babington
___ 1800-1859 ___ British ___ historian ___ 1838-1859
Data ___ Howard, George ___ 1802-1864
___ British ___ politician ___ 1843-1864
Data ___ Alcott, Louisa May ___ 1832-1888
___ American ___ writer ___ 1843-1888
Data ___ Tolstoy, Leo ___ 1828-1910
___ Russian ___ writer ___ 1846-1910
Data ___ Allingham, William ___
1824-1889 ___ Irish ___ poet ___ 1847-1889
Data ___ De Goncourt, Edmond
___ 1822-1896 ___ French ___ writer ___ 1851-1896
Data ___ De Goncourt, Jules ___
1830-1870 ___ French ___ writer ___ 1851-1896
Data ___ Grimké, Charlotte
Forten Bridges ___ 1837-1914 ___ American ___ teacher ___ 1854-1862 1885-1892
Data ___ Carlyle, Jane Welsh ___
1801-1866 ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1855-1856
Data ___ Eliot, George ___ 1819-1880
___ British ___ writer ___ 1855-1877
Data ___ Munby, Arthur ___ 1828-1910
___ British ___ poet, lawyer ___ 1859-1903
Data ___ Symonds, John Addington
___ 1840-1893 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1860-1888
Data ___ Hopkins, Gerard Manley ___
1844-1889 ___ British ___ poet, priest ___ 1862-1875
Data ___ Dostoevsky, Anna Grigoryevna
___ 1846-1918 ___ Russian ___ n/a ___ 1867
Data ___ Domett, Alfred ___ 1811-1887
___ British ___ poet, politician ___ 1872-1885
Data ___ James, Henry ___ 1843-1916
___ American ___ writer ___ 1881-1882
Data ___ Bailey, John Cann ___ 1864-1931
___ British ___ writer ___ 1886-1930
Data ___ Gissing, George ___ 1857-1903
___ British ___ writer ___ 1887-1902
Data ___ James, Alice ___ 1848-1892
___ American ___ n/a ___ 1889-1892
Data ___ Montgomery, Lucy Maud
___ 1874-1942 ___ Canadian ___ teacher, writer ___ 1889-1942
Data ___ Gide, André ___ 1869-1951
___ French ___ writer ___ 1889-1949
Data ___ Gregory, Isabella Augusta
___ 1852-1932 ___ Irish ___ writer ___ 1892-1902 1916-1930
Data ___ Renard, Jules ___ 1824-1910
___ French ___ writer ___ 1893-1910
Data ___ Bennett, Arnold ___ 1867-1931
___ British ___ writer ___ 1896-1928
Data ___ Mahler-Werfel, Alma ___ 1879-1964
___ Austrian ___ musician ___ 1898-1902
Data ___ Musil, Robert ___ 1880-1942
___ Austrian ___ civilservant, writer ___ 1899-1941
Data ___ Barbellion, W N P ___
1889-1919 ___ British ___ naturalist ___ 1903-1919
Data ___ Moseley, Sydney ___ 1888-1961
___ British ___ writer ___ 1903-1960
Data ___ Mansfield, Katherine ___
1888-1923 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1904-1922
Data ___ Woolf, Leonard ___ 1880-1969
___ British ___ civilservant, writer ___ 1908-1911
Data ___ Palmer, Nettie ___ 1885-1964
___ Australian ___ poet ___ 1910-1922 1925-1939
Data ___ Kafka, Franz ___ 1883-1924
___ Czech ___ writer ___ 1910-1923
Data ___ Lowndes, Marie Belloc ___
1868-1947 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1911-1946
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 ___ Asquith, Cynthia ___ 1887-1960
___ British ___ writer ___ 1915-1918
Data ___ Sassoon, Siegfried ___ 1886-1967
___ British ___ poet ___ 1915-1925
Data ___ Woolf, Virginia ___ 1882-1941
___ British ___ writer ___ 1915-1941
Data ___ Brecht, Bertolt ___ 1898-1956
___ German ___ writer ___ 1920-1922 1934-1955
Data ___ Lewis, C S ___ 1898-1963
___ British ___ writer ___ 1922-1927
Data ___ Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
___ 1906-2001 ___ American ___ aviator, writer ___ 1922-1944
Data ___ Beaton, Cecil ___ 1904-1980
___ British ___ artist designer writer ___ 1922-1980
Data ___ Ritchie, Charles ___ 1906-1995
___ Canadian ___ diplomat ___ 1924-1971
Data ___ Michaux, Henri ___ 1899-1984
___ Belgian ___ artist poet ___ 1929
Data ___ Delafield, E M ___ 1890-1943
___ British ___ writer ___ 1930-1940g
Data ___ Soutar, William ___ 1898-1943
___ British ___ poet ___ 1930-1943
Data ___ Mencken, Henry Louis ___
1880-1956 ___ American ___ writer, editor ___ 1930-1948
Data ___ Nicolson, Harold ___ 1886-1968
___ British ___ politician, writer ___ 1930-1964
Data ___ Powell, Dawn ___ 1897-1965
___ American ___ writer ___ 1931-1965
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 ___ Smart, Elizabeth ___ 1913-1986
___ Canadian ___ writer ___ 1933-1986
Data ___ Agate, James Evershed ___
1877-1947 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1935-1947
Data ___ Pavese, Cesare ___ 1908-1950
___ Italian ___ writer ___ 1935-1950
Data ___ Gascoyne, David ___ 1916-2001
___ British ___ poet ___ 1936-1939
Data ___ Durrell, Lawrence ___ 1912-1990
___ British (born in India) ___ writer ___ 1937-1938
Data ___ Isherwood, Christopher
___ 1904-1986 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1939-1960
Data ___ Merton, Thomas ___
1915-1968 ___ American ___ priest ___ 1939-1968
Data ___ Spender, Harold Stephen
___ 1909-1995 ___ British ___ poet ___ 1939-1983
Data ___ Steinbeck, John ___ 1902-1968
___ American ___ writer ___ 1940 1951 1960
Data ___ Partridge, Frances ___
1900-2002 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1940-1971
Data ___ Ó Ríordáin,
Seán ___ 1916-1977 ___ Irish ___ civilservant, writer ___ 1940-1977
Data ___ Lees-Milne, James ___
1908-1997 ___ British ___ historian, writer ___ 1942-1949, 1953-1954, 1971-1997
Data ___ Origo, Iris ___ 1902-1988
___ British ___ writer ___ 1943-1944
Data ___ Guareschi, Giovanni ___
1908-1968 ___ Italian ___ writer ___ 1943-1945
Data ___ Camus, Albert ___ 1913-1960
___ Algerian ___ writer ___ 1946 1949
Data ___ De Beauvoir, Simone ___
1908-1986 ___ French ___ teacher, writer ___ 1947
Data ___ Collis, Maurice ___ 1889-1973
___ Irish ___ civilservant, writer ___ 1949-1969
Data ___ Plath, Sylvia ___ 1932-1963
___ American ___ writer ___ 1950-1962
Data ___ Rorem, Ned ___ 1923-n/a ___
American ___ composer, writer ___ 1951-1999
Data ___ Paul, Kate ___ 1940-n/a ___
British ___ writer ___ 1958-1963
Data ___ Orton, Joe ___ 1933-1967 ___
British ___ writer ___ 1966-1967
Data ___ Bennett, Alan ___ 1934-n/a
___ British ___ writer ___ 1969-1990
Data ___ Sarton, May ___ 1912-1995
___ American (born Belgium) ___ writer ___ 1973-1992
Data ___ Toynbee, Philip ___ 1916-1981
___ British ___ writer ___ 1977-1981
Data ___ Powell, Anthony ___ 1905-2000
___ British ___ writer ___ 1982-1992
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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.