Home
The List of Diarists
Explanatory Notes
Buy the
Bibliography
The Next Edition
Diary Texts
Books for Sale
Useful Links
Contact Us
Copyright Notice |
An outline of the scope of the bibliography is given below and the
following links provide samples of its content:
Table of Contents and Introduction
Guide
From the Bibliography of
Bibliographies
From the Bibliography of
Anthologies, Studies and Collections
Page of Diaries from 1709
Page of Diaries from 1967
The third, revised and enlarged, edition of
An Annotated Bibliography of diaries Printed in English was
published early in 2002 and is now the most comprehensive source of
reference in the field. There are approximately 9,500 thousand
diarists listed, representing perhaps twelve thousand published diaries.
The listing follows the now accepted convention by which diarists are
ordered alphabetically within the year in which their first diary begins. Approximately three quarters of the diarists recorded have
their diaries fully described or as a minimum are given title, place and
date of publication. Thanks to the generosity of The University of
California Press, the work of William Matthews is quoted where it has not
yet been possible to re-examine the diaries involved.
The entries in this Bibliography are fully cross referenced to the other
major works in the field and it therefore effectively forms a dated index to
them.
The listings now extend to more than half a million words in 1,296 pages,
and include the
introduction, a guide, a bibliography of bibliographies and of anthologies,
collections and studies of diaries, and also the alphabetical index. The
remaining seven volumes contain the Bibliography proper.
Although it has not been possible to attempt a complete publishing history
of every diary mentioned, major editions are covered and recent reprints are
noted when they have been encountered.
Annotations follow the pattern exhibited in the on line edition.
There are some limitations upon the coverage of the Bibliography,
particularly for American diaries after 1861, including the large number of
Civil War diaries, which are more fully dealt with in more specialised
works. Diaries published after the mid 1980's are included but have, as yet,
been less systematically collected than earlier material and there are
certainly omissions, particularly from the English Speaking Commonwealth,
and from serial publications generally.
There is a full alphabetical index of diarists but no attempt has been made
to provide a subject index.
|