The Diary Review

‘On way home, at night, an anguish of suffering in the thought that I can never hope to have an intellectual companion at home.’ This is Geo...

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

‘The day began with the barber telling me that, as of September 19, we will have to wear a badge bearing the word “Jew,” even six-year-old c...

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the death of E. M. Delafield, a British writer much loved for The Diary of a Provincial Lady , first pub...

‘The atomic bomb was used yesterday for the first time on the Japs. I must say I feel shocked and ashamed. Nobody knows what the effects of ...

‘I felt more powerfully than ever today what poems people are; not the part of them that speaks, but the mysterious, intricate network of th...

‘The Prospect of Constantinople, when ye behold it from the top of the Channel, at the distance of two Miles, is beyond compare, as being to...

‘I consider this days very successful work which has put me on the knot of several new and interesting products which may have a wide applic...