Online Diaries

As well as publishing high-quality, well-edited texts of some ‘great diaries from around the world’, Day Books is undertaking to put a series of diaries online, including classic texts and previously unpublished manuscripts.

Click the images below to read these diaries online - .pdf files open in new window. Get Acrobat Reader

With William Wordsworth in Europe:
read Mary Wordsworth's unpublished travel diary exclusively online, by kind permission of the director and trustees of the Wordsworth Trust, Cumbria

Anthony Wood (1632–95):
read his classic diary online

The Great War diary of Cuthbert Peerless

(1892-1917):

read his diary online

The unpublished diary of Elizabeth Anne Harries of St Mawes (1823-1911)

read her diary online