And so made significant . . .
And so made significant . . .
One of the earliest and most important diaries in history was kept by Edward VI, the boy king, in the mid-16th century. He was crowned king aged 9, and died aged 15. An influential adviser and teacher was the classical scholar and John Cheke; and it was Cheke who advised Edward to keep a diary with the following argument: ‘That a dark and imperfect reflection upon affairs floating in the memory, was like words dispersed and insignificant; whereas a view of them in a book, was like the same words digested and disposed in good order, and so made significant.’
SITE DEVISED
by Paul K Lyons
in diary days
The world’s greatest online anthology of diary extracts
is presented by calendar day, in the same way as popular books such as
The Assassin’s Cloak and The Faber Book of Diaries. However, this anthology includes more (over 3,000), and many longer, extracts than is possible in a published book.
For each quoted extract there is a link to a Diary Review article which gives: further extracts, biographical information, contexts, a portrait, and links to online sources/etexts.
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‘The Diary Junction is one of those wonderful privately maintained public resources for which the Internet is justly celebrated: a database of information about celebrated and obscure diaries[over 500] from all historical periods, with referrals to the dates the diaries cover, where the originals are held and bibliographic information on published versions.’ Laura Miller, Salon
The Diary Review, hosted by Blogger, publishes magazine-style articles on diaries and diarists, several times a week. Now over ten years old, The Diary Review is the secondary source for the extracts in this online anthology.
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