Rural Diary Archive
Rural Diary Archive

Scholarly Works That Employ Diaries and Edited Collections of Diaries

  • Campbell, Gail. ‘I wish to keep a record’: Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick Women Diarists and Their World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. 
  • Carter, Kathryn. “An Economy of Words: Emma Chadwick Stretch’s Account Book Diary, 1859-1860.” Acadiensis 29:1 (Autumn 1999). Carter is particularly attentive to narrative analysis. For example, she draws attention to the submerged narrative of the importance of Emma’s tea trade and the narrative weight given to her baby’s sickness. 
  • Carter, Kathryn., Ed. The Small Details of Life: 20 Diaries by Women in Canada, 1830-1996. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 
  • Conrad, Margaret et al, Ed. No Place Like Home: Diaries and Letters of Nova Scotia Women 1771-1938. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1988. 
  • Huskins, Bonnie and Michael Boudreau. “‘Daily Allowances:’ Literary Conventions and Daily Life in the Diaries of Ida Louise Martin (nee Friars), Saint John, New Brunswick, 1945-1992,” Acadiensis 34:2 (Spring 2005): 88-108. 
  • Kristofferson, Rob and Andrew Holman, Ed. More of a Man: Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman In Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. 
  • Little, J.I.  Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent: The Everyday Life of a Canadian Englishman, 1842-1898. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021. 
  • Loewen, Royden. From the Inside Out: The Rural Worlds of Mennonite Diarists, 1863-1929. Winnipeg: The University of Manitoba Press, 1999. This is a collection of Mennonite diaries with an excellent introduction to the different types of diaries in general. 
  • Rubio, Mary & Elizabeth Waterson, Ed. The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985-2004. 
  • Strasdin, Kate. The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe. New York London: Pegasus Books, 2023.