The Diary Review

‘Yesterday evening was really frightening. The air-raid siren went off at eight o’clock, just as we were giving the patients their supper. T...

The diary of the teenager Tanya Savicheva has to be one of the most poignant documents left behind by the Second World War, no matter that i...

Amy Lowell, a colourful and influential personality in American poetry during the first quarter of the 20th century, was born 150 years ago ...

Beatrix Potter - author and illustrator of the much-loved Peter Rabbit books - died 80 years ago today. As a teenager and young woman, Potte...

It is 30 years since Dan Eldon - a bright young star of photojournalism - was killed aged only 22 covering events in Somalia that presaged t...

‘The French people do not seem to think it wrong to cheat or lie, or the least disgraceful to be told they do.’ Such was the view of a preco...

‘John Morgan with a large body of cavalry said to be at Glasgow & marching on Lex[ington] expected tonight. The whole town is in a stir ...

‘I ran in the wind and played be a horse, and had a lovely time in the woods with Anna and Lizzie. We were fairies, and made gowns and pape...

‘This military education is a darned good thing for me. But I suspect life has a good many blows in store for me yet, else Nature would not ...

The diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay, sometimes called the ‘bad girl of American letters’, have been published some 70 years after her dea...