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Over a million words in 45 exercise books. [23] Ernest Achey Loftus: Unknown: 91 years: 1896–1987: Guinness World Record for longest kept diary. [24] [25] Caroline Bray: Unknown: 87 years: 1815–1902: Née Hennell, she was the intimate friend of George Eliot. Diary and commonplace book. [26] Claude Mauriac: Unknown: 69 years: 1927–1995 ...
He was believed to be the most prolific diarist in the history of American letters, writing an estimated 22 million words. [1] He was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the world's longest diary , until the journals of Robert Shields of Dayton, Washington , with 37.5 million words and crammed with minutes of daily living ...
Robert William Shields (May 17, 1918 – October 15, 2007) was an American minister and high school English teacher best known for writing a diary of 37.5 million words, which chronicled every five minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997.
Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle (1789–1857), English wife of Thomas Fremantle (Royal Navy officer), main contributor to The Wynne Diaries; Donald Friend (1915–1989), Australian artist; Robert Fripp (born 1946), English musician; Max Frisch (1911–1991), Swiss playwright and novelist; Samuel Fritz (1654–1725, 1728 or 1730), Czech Jesuit ...
The Halder Diaries; Heinrich Himmler papers; A History of Yesterday; ... List of books on diaries and journals; List of longest diaries; A Little House Traveler; M.
The German Tagebuch ('days-book') is normally rendered as "diary" in English, but the term encompasses workbooks or working journals as well as diaries proper. [17] For example, the notebooks of the Austrian writer Robert Musil and of the German-Swiss artist Paul Klee are called Tagebücher .
Nella Last (née Nellie Lord; 4 October 1889 – 22 June 1968) was an English housewife who lived in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, England.She wrote a diary for the Mass Observation Archive from 1939 until 1966 [1] making it one of the most substantial diaries held by Mass Observation.
[8] [9] His poems and essay volumes, such as From a College Window and The Upton Letters (essays in the form of letters) were famous in his time; and he left one of the longest diaries ever written: some four million words. [10] His literary criticisms of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward FitzGerald, Walter Pater and John Ruskin rank among his ...