I need any english diary but no celebs. A diary that alot of english people would know.?

Question

I already have Anne Frank.
I would like a diary that Engish would say "Oh yes I know that diary" This is some of my homework and I am soooooooo stuck ant help please I need it before I get in to huge trouble.

Answer 1

Samuel Pepys - he wrote a diary about the Great Plague (1665) and continued through the great fire of London (1666).

You could also try Zlata's diary, although I am not sure how well know it is, she was writing during the occupation of Bosnia and at the time was known as the new Anne Frank. She was a young girl at the time and wrote, as Anne did, from a child's perspective.

Also, if it's school homework, not sure how old you are but what about Tracy Beaker - know this is fiction but doesn't she keep a diary?

If you want to be more modern, or up to date what about Bloggers such as Salem Pax (known as the Bagdad Blogger) who wrote about war in Iraq from an insider's point of view. He's famous enough that some people would know who he was and there will be a lot on the internet about him.

Answer 2

The problem is that normally the only people whose diaries become well-known are celebrities - how boring would it be to read through some nobody's tales of days in a factory or office?

The only exceptions would be people living at pivotal moments of history like Samuel Pepys (Plague, Great Fire of London) or Anne Frank.

The best you could do might be a celeb's diaries of before they were famous, such as Spike Milligan's war memoirs (eg Hitler: My Part in His Downfall), although those aren't in pure "diary" form, more autobiography.

But the best (fictional) diary in English is "The Diary of a Nobody", by George & Weedon Grossmith.

Answer 3

The Diary Of Adrian Mole

Answer 4

Fanny Burney's Diary. She was a French emigree from the time of the Revolution and became a lady in waiting to Queen Charlotte, wife of George III. She wrote a fascinating diary full of details of contemporary life.

Answer 5

Samuel Pepys, definitely. It is a great account of what life was like in England during the seventeenth century - you'll be able to get a first hand account of the fire of london, for example - but the most interesting bits are the homely, domestic observations on everyday life - that will cetainly get you extra points!

Answer 6

Definitely Pepys as other people have said. It runs to quite a few volumes and is a bit rude in places since he wasn't exactly a faithful husband, althought the rude bits tend to be written in different foreign languages to confuse anyone who might read it. He wrote it in an early form of shorthand and it was a couple of hundred years before anyone could decypher it.

There are a number of books of extracts you can buy/borrow most of which include the highlights, including the restoration of Charles II, the Great Fire of London and the time the plague hit.

BTW his name is pronounced Peeps.

Answer 7

Flowers For Algernon is fiction, but it's very well-known and is written in diary form.

Answer 8

Samuel Pepys

try looking at

http://www.pepys.info/

Answer 9

Fanny Burney. By the way, she wasn't a French emigre(e), she married one. Pepys is fun but far too long.

Answer 10

Adrian Mole!! he's got like 4 or 5 of them!!