A compendium of the most celebrated revelatory notorious and heart-wrenching diaries from the
great the good and the downright evil. Including the historical journals of Samuel Pepys and
Anne Frank snapshots of art and culture in the diaries of Frida Kahlo and Kurt Cobain and
windows into the past from Queen Victoria and John Adams. Oscar Wilde once wrote: "I never
travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train."
100 Diaries that Chronicled World Event s introduces us to the world's greatest diarists whose
published journals offer a unique insight into their time and place. Dive into a diverse range
of accounts from all over the world. While everyone has heard of the diary of Anne Frank the
doomed log of Arctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott and the philandering antics of Samuel Pepys:
far fewer have discovered the diaries of Jakob Walter a foot soldier who gave a vivid insight
into the Napoleonic wars or Mary Chesnut a privileged planter's wife in South Carolina who
chronicled the South's decline in the Civil War. Includes diaries from: Kurt Cobain Samuel
Pepys Lady Anne Clifford John Adams Eliza Fay Dorothy Wordsworth Lord Byron Allen
Ginsburg Anne Lister George Sand Queen Victoria Andy Warhol Virigina Woolf Frida Kahlo
and more!
