[Personal_archives] FW: The Diary Review

[Hobbs, Catherine]

For your interest.

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From: Paul Lyons [mailto:paul at pikle.co.uk]
Sent: November 22, 2011 6:07 AM
Subject: The Diary Review

Hi

Here at The Diary Review<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/> - now in it's fourth year - we're fanatical about the joy of diaries, historical and literary, and we'd love it if you could give us a review or include a link on your own website:
 both The Diary Review<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/> and The Diary Junction<http://www.pikle.co.uk/diaryjunction.html> are non-commercial websites, free of advertising.

With over 400 articles, The Diary Review is already one of the most important sources of information about diaries anywhere on the internet. We always refer to original sources, provide links, and try to quote actual diary texts. Recent articles include:

Gunfight at OK Corral<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2011/10/gunfight-at-ok-corral.html>
 - as recorded by a resident of Tombstone
Arthur Schnitzler whistling<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2011/10/arthur-schnitzler-whistling.html>
 - the famous Austrian writer and his sex-obsessed diary
Thomas Edison's diary<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2011/10/thomas-edisons-diary.html> - the great inventor's only personal thoughts and feelings
Farington on Dance<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2011/10/farington-on-dance.html> - one 18th century artist's thoughts on another
Animate the marble<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2011/10/animate-marble.html> - an extract from Gideon Mantell's fascinating journal
The Broncho Buster<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2011/10/broncho-buster.html> - on Frederic Remington, the great Wild West artist
Violent, absurd and mad<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2011/09/violent-absurd-and-mad.html> - Lady Mary Coke, a friend of Horace Walpole
The most beautiful poem<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2011/09/most-beautiful-poem.html> - such is life, said the French poet Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Death of a bandit<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2011/08/death-of-bandit.html> - Walter Scott on an Italian adventure

Other articles this year have been about David Livingstone's invisible writing<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2011/11/livingstones-invisible-writing.html>, Columbus in the Bahamas<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2011/10/columbus-in-bahamas.html>, <http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2011/09/kaempfers-japan.html> Engelbert Kaempfer<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2011/09/kaempfers-japan.html> in Japan, and the discovery of Machu Picchu<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2011/07/breathless-machu-picchu.html>.

Please do consider reviewing the site or adding a link to your own web pages.

Many thanks

Paul K Lyons

Here is what Salon says:
'The Diary Junction is one of those wonderful privately maintained public resources for which the Internet is justly celebrated: a database of information about celebrated and obscure diaries from all historical periods, with referrals to the dates the diaries cover, where the originals are held and bibliographic information on published versions. Nevertheless, it can be a little daunting to find your way in, so the Junction's curator, Paul K. Lyons, has created a blog in which he regularly dispenses select morsels from the feast. The diarists range from famous writers to obscure shopkeepers, and expound on subjects such as war, politics, baseball, art and marriage -- in essence, the stuff that our days and nights are made of.'
Laura Miller, Salon<http://www.salon.com/ent/critics_picks/2008/10/11/october11/>

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