"Based on analysis of a diary kept by Constantijn Huygens Jr, the secretary to Stadholder-King William of Orange, this book proposes a new explanation for the invention of the modern, private diary in the 17th century. At the same time it sketches a panoramic view of Europe at t…
In Yorkshire eind 18e eeuw leidt de rijke landgoedeigenares Anne Lister een geheim leven want ze leeft samen met haar minnares Mariana. Anne schrijft in haar dagboeken in een codetaal gedetailleerd en openlijk over haar liefdes en leven
Dagboek van de Duits-joodse schrijver/filoloog/filosoof over de periode januari 1933-juni 1945.
"Beginning with glasnost in the late 1980s and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia, marking the end of an epoch. In a major new work on private life and personal writing…
"Between the 17th and 19th centuries autobiographers and diarists invented new ways to write about childhood and children. At the same time, pedagogical ideas about child-rearing changed. This book looks at the connection between these developments. Egodocuments can bring the pa…
