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
travel from 1800 (sorted
by diary dates)
Surname, first name___ born-died ___ nationality ___ occupation ___ diary
dates
Data ___ Martyn, Henry ___ 1781-1812
___ British ___ priest ___ 1801-1812
Data ___ Stendhal, ___ 1783-1842
___ French ___ writer ___ 1801-1814
Data ___ Robinson, Henry Crabb ___
1775-1867 ___ British ___ lawyer ___ 1801-1867
Data ___ Hawker, Peter ___ 1786-1853
___ British ___ soldier ___ 1802-1853
Data ___ Skinner, John ___ 1772-1839
___ British ___ priest, antiquary ___ 1803-1834
Data ___ Irving, Washington ___ 1783-1859
___ American ___ writer ___ 1803-1842
Data ___ Clark, William ___ 1770-1838
___ American ___ soldier, explorer, civilservant ___ 1804-1806
Data ___ Lewis, Meriwether ___ 1774-1809
___ American ___ soldier, explorer ___ 1804-1806
Data ___ Lister, Anne ___ 1791-1840
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1806-1839
Data ___ Hobhouse, John Cam ___
1786-1869 ___ British ___ politician ___ 1809-1852
Data ___ Bury, Charlotte ___ 1775-1861
___ British ___ courtier, writer ___ 1810-1820
Data ___ Boileau, John Peter ___
1794-1869 ___ British ___ landowner, antiquary ___ 1816-1861
Data ___ Cunningham, Allan
___ 1791-1839 ___ British ___ naturalist, explorer ___ 1817-1818
Data ___ Cobbett, William ___ 1763-1835
___ British ___ politician, writer ___ 1817-1818 1821-1832
Data ___ Joinville, Francois Ferdinand
___ 1818-1900 ___ French ___ sailor ___ 1818-1848
Data ___ Scott, Walter ___ 1771-1832
___ British ___ writer ___ 1825-1832
Data ___ Ruskin, John ___ 1819-1900
___ British ___ writer ___ 1830 1835-1889
Data ___ Darwin, Charles ___ 1809-1882
___ British ___ scientist ___ 1831-1836
Data ___ Kemble, Fanny ___ 1809-1893
___ British ___ actor ___ 1831-1839
Data ___ Raikes, Thomas ___ 1777-1848
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1831-1847
Data ___ Fox, Robert Barclay ___ 1817-1855
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1832-1844
Data ___ Griffith, William ___ 1810-1845
___ British ___ doctor, naturalist ___ 1835-1840
Data ___ Macaulay, Thomas Babington
___ 1800-1859 ___ British ___ historian ___ 1838-1859
Data ___ Hall, Emily ___ 1819-1901
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1838-1901
Data ___ Hall, Ellen ___ 1822-1911
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1838-1901
Data ___ Bache, Søren ___ 1814-1890
___ Norwegian ___ farmer ___ 1839-1847
Data ___ Howard, George ___ 1802-1864
___ British ___ politician ___ 1843-1864
Data ___ Alcott, Louisa May ___ 1832-1888
___ American ___ writer ___ 1843-1888
Data ___ Moore, George ___ n/a-n/a
___ British ___ merchant ___ 1844
Data ___ Manning, Henry Edward ___
1808-1892 ___ British ___ priest ___ 1844-1890
Data ___ Senior, Nassau ___ 1790-1864
___ British ___ teacher, writer ___ 1848-1858
Data ___ Leeves, Edward ___ 1795c-1871c
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1849-1850
Data ___ Duff, Mountstuart Grant ___
1829-1906 ___ British ___ civilservant, politician ___ 1851-1901
Data ___ Coon, Polly Lavinia ___ 1825-1898
___ American ___ n/a ___ 1852
Data ___ Eliot, George ___ 1819-1880
___ British ___ writer ___ 1855-1877
Data ___ Bodichon, Barbara Leigh
___ 1827-1891 ___ American ___ writer, reformer ___ 1857-1858
Data ___ Knight, William Henry ___
n/a-n/a ___ British ___ soldier ___ 1860
Data ___ Symonds, John Addington
___ 1840-1893 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1860-1888
Data ___ Hopkins, Gerard Manley ___
1844-1889 ___ British ___ poet, priest ___ 1862-1875
Data ___ Cory, William Johnson ___ 1823-1892
___ British ___ teacher ___ 1863-1873
Data ___ Birchall, Emily ___
1852-1884 ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1873
Data ___ Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
___ 1840-1893 ___ Russian ___ composer ___ 1873 1884-1891
Data ___ Bashkirtseff, Marie
___ 1858-1884 ___ Russian ___ painter ___ 1873-1884
Data ___ Webb, Beatrice ___ 1858-1943
___ British ___ reformer, writer ___ 1873-1943
Data ___ Birchall, John Dearman
___ 1828-1897 ___ British ___ manufacturer ___ 1873g
Data ___ Bell, Gertrude ___ 1868-1926
___ British ___ writer diplomat ___ 1877-1919
Data ___ Stevenson, Robert Louis
___ 1850-1894 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1878 1880
Data ___ Kessler, Harry ___ 1868-1937
___ French ___ soldier ___ 1880-1937
Data ___ James, Henry ___ 1843-1916
___ American ___ writer ___ 1881-1882
Data ___ Potter, Beatrix ___ 1866-1943
___ British ___ writer, painter ___ 1881-1897
Data ___ Gissing, George ___ 1857-1903
___ British ___ writer ___ 1887-1902
Data ___ Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen ___
1840-1922 ___ British ___ diplomat, writer ___ 1888-1914
Data ___ Peerless, Henry ___ 1866-1930
___ British ___ merchant ___ 1891-1920
Data ___ Bennett, Arnold ___ 1867-1931
___ British ___ writer ___ 1896-1928
Data ___ Jacob, Violet ___ 1863-1946
___ British ___ poet ___ 1897-1899
Data ___ Klee, Paul ___ 1879-1940 ___
Swiss ___ artist ___ 1897-1918 1914
Data ___ Moseley, Sydney ___ 1888-1961
___ British ___ writer ___ 1903-1960
Data ___ Woolf, Leonard ___ 1880-1969
___ British ___ civilservant, writer ___ 1908-1911
Data ___ Waugh, Evelyn ___ 1903-1966
___ British ___ writer ___ 1911-1965
Data ___ Ranfurly, Hermione ___
1913-2001 ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1913-1945
Data ___ Macnaughton, Sarah ___
1850-1916 ___ British ___ nurse, writer ___ 1914-1916
Data ___ Brenan, Gerald ___ 1894-1987
___ British (born in Malta) ___ writer ___ 1914-1964
Data ___ Mountbatten, Louis ___
1900-1979 ___ British ___ sailor, civilservant ___ 1921-1979
Data ___ Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
___ 1906-2001 ___ American ___ aviator, writer ___ 1922-1944
Data ___ Beaton, Cecil ___ 1904-1980
___ British ___ artist designer writer ___ 1922-1980
Data ___ Cocteau, Jean ___ 1889-1963
___ French ___ writer, director ___ 1928-1963
Data ___ Michaux, Henri ___ 1899-1984
___ Belgian ___ artist, poet ___ 1929
Data ___ Friend, Donald ___ 1915-1989
___ Australian ___ artist, writer ___ 1929-1989g
Data ___ Muggeridge, Malcolm ___
1903-1990 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1932-1962
Data ___ Smart, Elizabeth ___ 1913-1986
___ Canadian ___ writer ___ 1933-1986
Data ___ Mitchison, Naomi ___ 1897-1999
___ British ___ writer ___ 1934 1939-1945
Data ___ Shirer, William L ___ 1904-1993
___ American ___ writer ___ 1934-1945
Data ___ Hill, John Edward Bernard
___ 1912-n/a ___ British ___ farmer politician ___ 1935 1937
Data ___ Durrell, Lawrence ___ 1912-1990
___ British (born in India) ___ writer ___ 1937-1938
Data ___ Cadogan, Alexander ___ 1884-1968
___ British ___ civilservant ___ 1938-1945
Data ___ Merton, Thomas ___
1915-1968 ___ American ___ priest ___ 1939-1968
Data ___ Wyndham, Joan ___ 1922-n/a
___ British ___ writer ___ 1939-1990
Data ___ Steinbeck, John ___ 1902-1968
___ American ___ writer ___ 1940 1951 1960
Data ___ Partridge, Frances ___
1900-2002 ___ British ___ writer ___ 1940-1971
Data ___ Coward, Noel Peirce ___ 1899-1973
___ British ___ writer, actor ___ 1941-1969
Data ___ Grenfell, Joyce Irene ___
1910-1979 ___ British ___ actor ___ 1944-1945
Data ___ Camus, Albert ___ 1913-1960
___ Algerian ___ writer ___ 1946 1949
Data ___ Gladwyn, Cynthia ___ 1898-1990
___ British ___ n/a ___ 1946-1971
Data ___ De Beauvoir, Simone ___
1908-1986 ___ French ___ teacher, writer ___ 1947
Data ___ Guevara, Ernesto ___ 1928-1967
___ Argentinian ___ politician ___ 1951-1952 1966-1967
Data ___ Rorem, Ned ___ 1923-n/a ___
American ___ composer, writer ___ 1951-1999
Data ___ Casson, Hugh ___ 1910-1999
___ British ___ architect ___ 1954 1980
Data ___ Bennett, Alan ___ 1934-n/a
___ British ___ writer ___ 1969-1990
Data ___ Guinness, Alec ___ 1914-2000
___ British ___ actor ___ 1995
Data ___ Bull, Deborah ___ 1963-n/a
___ British ___ dancer ___ 1999
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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.