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Guinness World Record for longest kept diary. [26] [27] Caroline Bray: Unknown: 87 years: 1815–1902: Née Hennell; she was the intimate friend of George Eliot. Diary and commonplace book. [28] Claude Mauriac: Unknown: 69 years: 1927–1995: Lejeune gives both 68 and 69 years.
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.
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 ...
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 diaries of presidents offer history in the raw — even the naked — and may have secrets to tell ... His diaries “comprise the longest continuous record of any American of the time ...
Many diaries of notable figures have been published and form an important element of autobiographical literature. Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) is the earliest diarist who is well known today; his diaries, preserved in Magdalene College, Cambridge, were first transcribed and published in 1825. Pepys was amongst the first who took the diary beyond ...
History portal; Art of Europe; Geologic time scale; List of fossil sites with link directory. List of timelines around the world. Logarithmic timeline shows all history on one page in ten lines. Orders of magnitude (time) Periodization for a discussion of the tendency to try to fit history into non-overlapping periods. Time. Planck Time
ChronoZoom is a timeline for Big History being developed for the International Big History Association by Microsoft Research and University of California, Berkeley Asian Studies online: a timeline of major developments