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
society (sorted
by diary dates)
Surname, first name___ born-died ___ nationality ___ occupation ___ diary
dates
Data ___ Daishi, Jikaku ___ 793-864
___ Japanese ___ diplomat, priest, writer ___ 838-848
Data ___ Sarashina, ___ 1009-n/a
___ Japanese ___ n/a ___ 1009-1059
Data ___ Munetada, Fujiwara ___
1062-1141 ___ Japanese ___ courtier ___ 1087-1138
Data ___ Maisse, André Hurault
___ 1539-1607 ___ French ___ diplomat ___ 1597
Data ___ Hoby, Margaret ___ 1570-1633
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1599-1605
Data ___ Clifford, Anne ___ 1590-1676
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1603-1619
Data ___ Boyle, Richard ___ 1566-1643
___ British ___ entrepreneur, politician ___ 1611-1643
Data ___ Laud, William ___ 1573-1645
___ British ___ priest ___ 1621-1645
Data ___ De Bassompierre,
Francois ___ 1579-1646 ___ French ___ soldier, diplomat ___ 1626
Data ___ Crosfield, Thomas ___
1602-1663 ___ British ___ priest ___ 1626-1640 1653-1654
Data ___ Ashmole, Elias ___ 1617-1692
___ British ___ scientist, lawyer ___ 1633-1688
Data ___ Mordaunt, Elizabeth ___
1630c-1679 ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1656-1678
Data ___ Pepys, Samuel ___ 1633-1703
___ British ___ civilservant ___ 1660-1669
Data ___ Hooke, Robert ___ 1635-1703
___ British ___ scientist ___ 1672-1681
Data ___ Sewall, Samuel ___ 1652-1730
___ British ___ merchant ___ 1673-1729
Data ___ Fiennes, Celia ___ 1662-1741
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1695-1697
Data ___ Swift, Jonathan ___ 1667-1745
___ Irish ___ writer, priest ___ 1710-1713
Data ___ Cowper, Mary ___ 1685-1724
___ British ___ courtier ___ 1712-1716 1720
Data ___ Gyll, Thomas ___ 1700-1778
___ British ___ lawyer, antiquary ___ 1748-1778
Data ___ Bubb Dodington, George ___
1691-1762 ___ British ___ politician ___ 1749-1761
Data ___ Walpole, Horace ___ 1717-1797
___ British ___ writer, antiquary ___ 1751-1789
Data ___ Powys, Caroline ___ 1737-1808
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1756-1808
Data ___ Coke, Mary ___ 1727-1811 ___
British ___ n/a ___ 1766-1791
Data ___ Brown, Nicholas ___ 1722c-1797
___ British ___ lawyer ___ 1767-1796
Data ___ Harris, James ___ 1745-1829
___ British ___ diplomat ___ 1767-1820
Data ___ Burney, Fanny ___ 1752-1840
___ British ___ writer ___ 1768-1819
Data ___ Temple, William Johnstone
___ 1739-1796 ___ British ___ priest ___ 1780-1796
Data ___ Berry, Mary ___ 1763-1852
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1783-1848
Data ___ Fremantle, Elizabeth ___
1779-1857 ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1789-1857
Data ___ Von Lowenstern, Hermann
Ludwig ___ 1777-1836 ___ German ___ sailor ___ 1793-1815
Data ___ Farington, Joseph ___
1747-1821 ___ British ___ painter ___ 1793-1820
Data ___ Roden, Anne ___ 1730-1802
___ Irish ___ n/a ___ 1794-1802
Data ___ Witts, Francis Edward ___
1783-1854 ___ British ___ priest ___ 1795c-1854
Data ___ Hunt, Vere ___ 1761-1818 ___
Irish ___ soldier, landowner, entrepreneur ___ 1798-1816
Data ___ Niemcewicz, Julian Ursyn
___ 1757-1841 ___ Polish ___ writer, politician ___ 1797-1799 1805
Data ___ Jackson, George ___ 1785-1861
___ British ___ diplomat ___ 1801-1816
Data ___ Nugent, Maria ___ 1771-1834
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1801-1816
Data ___ Robinson, Henry Crabb ___
1775-1867 ___ British ___ lawyer ___ 1801-1867
Data ___ Irving, Washington ___ 1783-1859
___ American ___ writer ___ 1803-1842
Data ___ Rumney, Thomas ___ 1764-1835
___ British ___ farmer ___ 1805-1806
Data ___ Dearborn, Sarah Bowdoin
___ n/a-n/a ___ American ___ n/a ___ 1806-1808 1823-1824
Data ___ Lister, Anne ___ 1791-1840
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1806-1839
Data ___ Bisshopp, Katherine ___
1791-1871 ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1808-1834
Data ___ Creevey, Thomas ___ 1768-1838
___ British ___ politician ___ 1809-1818
Data ___ Hobhouse, John Cam ___
1786-1869 ___ British ___ politician ___ 1809-1852
Data ___ Bury, Charlotte ___ 1775-1861
___ British ___ courtier, writer ___ 1810-1820
Data ___ Moore, Thomas ___ 1779-1852
___ Irish ___ writer ___ 1814-1847
Data ___ Fox, Henry Edward ___ 1802-1859
___ British ___ diplomat ___ 1818-1830
Data ___ Emerson, Ralph Waldo
___ 1803-1882 ___ American ___ writer, priest ___ 1820-1875
Data ___ Hone, Philip ___ 1780-1851
___ American ___ merchant, politician ___ 1828-1851
Data ___ Chalmers, Anne ___ 1813-1891
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1830
Data ___ Ruskin, John ___ 1819-1900
___ British ___ writer ___ 1830 1835-1889
Data ___ Raikes, Thomas ___ 1777-1848
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1831-1847
Data ___ Fox, Robert Barclay ___ 1817-1855
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1832-1844
Data ___ Greville, Henry ___
1801-1872 ___ British ___ diplomat ___ 1832-1872
Data ___ Victoria, ___ 1819-1901
___ British ___ sovereign ___ 1832-1840 1842-1882
Data ___ Macready, William Charles
___ 1793-1873 ___ British ___ actor ___ 1833-1851
Data ___ Fox, Caroline ___ 1819-1871
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1835-1867
Data ___ Strong, George Templeton
___ 1820-1875 ___ American ___ lawyer ___ 1835-1875
Data ___ Howard, George ___ 1802-1864
___ British ___ politician ___ 1843-1864
Data ___ De Goncourt, Edmond
___ 1822-1896 ___ French ___ writer ___ 1851-1896
Data ___ De Goncourt, Jules ___
1830-1870 ___ French ___ writer ___ 1851-1896
Data ___ Duff, Mountstuart Grant ___
1829-1906 ___ British ___ civilservant, politician ___ 1851-1901
Data ___ Grimké, Charlotte
Forten Bridges ___ 1837-1914 ___ American ___ teacher ___ 1854-1862 1885-1892
Data ___ Tolstoy, Sofia ___
1844-1919 ___ Russian ___ n/a ___ 1860-1919
Data ___ Chesnut, Mary Boykin ___
1823-1886 ___ American ___ n/a ___ 1861-1865
Data ___ Andrews, Eliza Frances ___
1840-1931 ___ American ___ writer, naturalist ___ 1864-1865 1870-1872
Data ___ Wagner, Cosima Liszt ___
1837-1930 ___ Italian ___ n/a ___ 1869-1883
Data ___ Domett, Alfred ___ 1811-1887
___ British ___ poet, politician ___ 1872-1885
Data ___ Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
___ 1840-1893 ___ Russian ___ composer ___ 1873 1884-1891
Data ___ Kessler, Harry ___ 1868-1937
___ French ___ soldier ___ 1880-1937
Data ___ Bailey, John Cann ___ 1864-1931
___ British ___ writer ___ 1886-1930
Data ___ Moseley, Sydney ___ 1888-1961
___ British ___ writer ___ 1903-1960
Data ___ James, Alice ___ 1848-1892
___ American ___ n/a ___ 1889-1892
Data ___ Hamilton-Gordon, Ishbel
Maria ___ 1857-1939 ___ British ___ reformer ___ 1890-1899
Data ___ Gregory, Isabella Augusta
___ 1852-1932 ___ Irish ___ writer ___ 1892-1902 1916-1930
Data ___ Bennett, Arnold ___ 1867-1931
___ British ___ writer ___ 1896-1928
Data ___ Mahler-Werfel, Alma ___ 1879-1964
___ Austrian ___ musician ___ 1898-1902
Data ___ Lascelles, Alan Frederick
___ 1887-1981 ___ British ___ soldier, civilservant ___ 1898-1936
Data ___ Moseley, Sydney ___ 1888-1961
___ British ___ writer ___ 1903-1960
Data ___ Lowndes, Marie Belloc ___
1868-1947 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1911-1946
Data ___ Waugh, Evelyn ___ 1903-1966
___ British ___ writer ___ 1911-1965
Data ___ Ranfurly, Hermione ___
1913-2001 ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1913-1945
Data ___ Asquith, Cynthia ___ 1887-1960
___ British ___ writer ___ 1915-1918
Data ___ Woolf, Virginia ___ 1882-1941
___ British ___ writer ___ 1915-1941
Data ___ Lockhart, Robert Bruce
___ 1887-1970 ___ British ___ diplomat, writer ___ 1915-1970
Data ___ De Pougy, Liane ___ 1869-1950
___ French ___ n/a ___ 1919-1941
Data ___ Mountbatten, Louis ___
1900-1979 ___ British ___ sailor, civilservant ___ 1921-1979
Data ___ Beaton, Cecil ___ 1904-1980
___ British ___ artist designer writer ___ 1922-1980
Data ___ Ritchie, Charles ___ 1906-1995
___ Canadian ___ diplomat ___ 1924-1971
Data ___ Cocteau, Jean ___ 1889-1963
___ French ___ writer, director ___ 1928-1963
Data ___ Nicolson, Harold ___ 1886-1968
___ British ___ politician, writer ___ 1930-1964
Data ___ Powell, Dawn ___ 1897-1965
___ American ___ writer ___ 1931-1965
Data ___ Bullard, Reader ___ 1885-1976
___ British ___ diplomat ___ 1930-1934
Data ___ Channon, Henry ___ 1897-1958
___ American ___ politician ___ 1934-1953
Data ___ King, Cecil Harmsworth
___ 1901-1987 ___ British ___ merchant ___ 1940-1945 1965-1974
Data ___ Collis, Maurice ___ 1889-1973
___ Irish ___ civilservant, writer ___ 1949-1969
Data ___ Agate, James Evershed ___
1877-1947 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1935-1947
Data ___ Coward, Noel Peirce ___ 1899-1973
___ British ___ writer, actor ___ 1941-1969
Data ___ Lees-Milne, James ___
1908-1997 ___ British ___ historian, writer ___ 1942-1949, 1953-1954, 1971-1997
Data ___ Pearson, Drew ___ 1897-1969
___ American ___ writer ___ 1949-1959
Data ___ Rorem, Ned ___ 1923-n/a ___
American ___ composer, writer ___ 1951-1999
Data ___ Casson, Hugh ___ 1910-1999
___ British ___ architect ___ 1954 1980
Data ___ Clark, Alan ___ 1928-1999
___ British ___ politician, writer ___ 1972-1999
Data ___ Warhol, Andy ___ 1926-1987
___ American ___ painter, director ___ 1976-1987
Data ___ Powell, Anthony ___ 1905-2000
___ British ___ writer ___ 1982-1992
Data ___ Wyatt, Woodrow ___ 1918-1997
___ British ___ politician, writer ___ 1985-1997
Data ___ Guinness, Alec ___ 1914-2000
___ British ___ actor ___ 1995
ADVERTISEMENTS
A novel in search of a publisher: 'Begetting
- Loss - Recovery', or BLR for short, is a psychological thriller. The
story, told in three parts corresponding to those in the title, deals with
a fear that taps deep into the veins of our society. In the first part the
narrator, Bill, reflects on his relationship with Susan, and the circumstances
which led them to have a child, Belinda. Part two begins with the inexplicable
loss of Belinda, and takes place over seven tense days. Bill describes his
fluctuating mental processes and his impotent practical responses to the
crisis. Part three, which is narrated in the present tense, builds to an
exciting climax.
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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.