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Great diary site - go look!
Saturday, February 28th, 2009By Paul Biba
Here is the text of a fascinating email that Paul Lyons sent us. I went over to the site and for any lover of diaries it is a marvelous resource. Paul hopes we find them well-written, original and interesting. Indeed I do. I find them all of that and more. Onto my RSS reader his site goes!
Hi
It’s now nine months I’ve now been writing two or three articles a week on historical and literary diaries/diarists for the Diary Junction Blog. There’s an archive of over 120 substantial stories, all of them full of useful links, and most of them with extracts from original texts.
Here is a selection of the latest articles - take a look. I hope you find them well-written, original, and interesting.
If so, please do advise your own readers/website visitors about the
The Diary Junction Blog and/or
The Diary Junction.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Lincoln and Fanny Seward
To mark the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln, the University of Rochester has put online a selection of diary entries written by Fanny, the daughter of Lincoln’s Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Among these diary entries is an eye-witness description of the attempted murder of her father by a Confederate spy and associate of the man who succeeded in assassinating Lincoln that very same day. . .
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Darwin and his diaries
Charles Darwin, one of the greatest and most important scientists that ever lived, was born two centuries ago today. It is well known that his discoveries regarding evolution were first seeded while travelling round the world on HMS Beagle. During that journey, he wrote a detailed diary which has been published many times; but he also kept another diary throughout his life - unfortunately it’s very brief. Darwin’s wife, Emma, kept a diary too, also very brief (which seems to ignore her husband’s birthday!). All three diaries are freely available on the internet thanks to the wonderful Darwin Online website. . . .
Monday, February 2, 2009
We saw a light ashore
Three hundred years ago today a Scottish sailor called Alexander Selkirk was rescued from a South Pacific Island, having been marooned there for four years, by an English sailor called Woodes Rogers. Selkirk’s ordeal is said to have inspired Daniel Defoe’s now famous character and book, Robinson Crusoe. Indeed, extracts from Rogers’ journal at the time he found Selkirk are included at the back of an 1801 edition of Robinson Crusoe (and this is freely available online). . (more…)
