THE PERSONAL NATURE OF DIARIES
We deeply appreciate your concerns about privacy. Your diarist may have recorded events and feelings that they never imagined would one day appear on the Internet. With the passage of time, however, the activities of diarists, their tales and opinions lose their ability to have a personal impact on others. The people in the nineteenth-century diaries featured on this website have now passed away and bequeath to us sources of extraordinary power.
“While I learned a lot about rural women in the nineteenth century, my favourite discovery in reading Susie Smith’s diary was to learn how sassy and funny she was.” – E. Thomas