"Nora's Letter" by Marcus Stone (illustration for Anthony Trollope's He Knew He was Right)
Diaries and Journals
- Queen Victoria's Diaries
- The Queen's Hindustani Diary
- Rev. Francis Kilvert (1840-1872)
- Arthur J. Munby (1828–1910)
- Dickens's Lost 1867 diary
- Extracts from the Letters and Journal of General Lord George Paget (during the Crimean War)
- Charles Usherwood's Service Journal, 1852-56 (during the Crimean War)
- George Heath's Diary, 1866-69
- Warden Singleton's Diary
- The Diary of Robert Corbet Singleton of Radley College
- Mr Pooter: An Alternative Point of View (about George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody)
Diaries and Journals in the Visual Arts
Criticism, Reviews
- Review of The Brantwood Diary of John Ruskin, Together with Selected Related Letters and Sketches of Persons Mentioned, ed. Helen Gill Viljoen
- Review of The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1885-1906, ed. Dudley W. R. Bahlman
Related Material
- Letters from the Past (sitemap)
- Letter Writing in the Victorian Age
- Condolence Letters Spurred by the Penny Post
- Letters in London: Communication and Correspondence in the Nineteenth-century City
- Letter-Writing Manuals
- Richard Jefferies and Other British Nature Writers — Gilbert White, William Cobbett, and W.H. Hudson
Select Bibliography
Amigoni, David, ed. Life Writing and Victorian Culture. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 2006.
Carter, Kathryn. "The Cultural Work of Diaries in Mid-century Britain." book">Victorian review 23/2 (Winter 1997): 25-67.
Delafield, Catherine. Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-century Novel. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2009.
Fothergill, Robert. Private Chronicles: A Study of English Diaries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Huff, Cynthia. British Women's Diaries: A Descriptive Bibliography of Selected Nineteenth-century Manuscript Diaries. New York: AMS Press, 2006.
Ponsonby, Arthur. English Diaries: A Review of English Diaries from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century with an Introduction on Diary Writing. London: Methuen, 1923 (available in the Internet Archive).
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