This is a list of diaries notable for their exceptional length, primarily by word count but also by duration.
| Author | Word count | Duration | Period | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laura Penrose Francis[a] | 40 million | 60 years | 1952–2012 | Word count and duration as of 2012.[2] |
| Robert Shields | 37.5 million | 25 years | 1972–1997 | Exact word count not available until 2049.[3] |
| Claude Fredericks | 30 million | 80 years | 1932–2012[4] | Word count is estimated; the manuscript runs to 65,000 pages.[5] |
| Joseph Holloway | 25 million | 45 years | 1899–1944 | "Dublin playgoer." Published diaries 1899 to 1944.[6][7] |
| Edward Robb Ellis | 22 million | 71 years | 1927–1998 | |
| Heinrich Witt | 18 million | 70 years | 1859–1890 | Witt (1799–1892) was born in Germany, lived in Peru, and wrote in English.[8] |
| Arthur Crew Inman | 17 million | 44 years | 1919–1963 | 155 volumes.[9] Other accounts state 10 million words.[10] |
| Tony Benn | 15 million[b] | 69 years | 1940–2009 | "…sixty-nine years of writing, typing or dictating almost every day…"[13] |
| Li Shuxiang | 13 million | 74 years | 1941–2015[c] | 85 volumes.[14] |
| Nella Last | 12 million[15] | 28 years | 1939–1967 | Participant in Mass Observation project. |
| Dr. John Henry Salter | 10 million | 83 years | 1849–1932 | GP of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex.[16] |
| Thomas McGrath | 9 million | 50 years | 1973–2022[d] | [17] |
| Henri-Frédéric Amiel | 6 million | 42 years | 1839–1881 | 173 journals; 16,800 pages.[18] |
| Harold L. Ickes | 6 million[19] | 19 years | 1933–1952 | "…nearly a hundred volumes of closely-typed copy…"[20] |
| Ellsworth James | 5.9 million | 63 years | 1944–2007 | Word count does not include first year (1944) which was handwritten. 1946-2007 manually typed.[21] |
| Anne Lister | 5.6 million[e] | 34 years | 1806–1840 | She frequently used a cypher or "crypt hand" she had devised herself.[23] |
| Amos Bronson Alcott | 5 million | 71 years | 1811–1882 | …over sixty surviving volumes containing nearly five million words…[24] |
| Arthur Christopher Benson | 5 million | 28 years | 1897–1925 | Author of ‘Land of Hope and Glory.’[25] |
| Rev. Dr. John Morgans O.B.E. | 5 million | 52 years | 1952–2004 | Life as schoolboy, student, and minister in Wales.[26] |
| Frederic Madden | 4 million | 54 years | 1819–1873 | 43 volumes.[27] |
| Leo Tolstoy | 4 million | 63 years | 1847–1910 | [28] |
| George Templeton Strong | 4 million | 40 years | 1835–1875 | "A monumental diary, in the tradition of Pepys, Evelyn or Sewall…"[29] |
| John Gadd | 4 million | 45 years | 1975–2020 | Started in 1947[30] but kept consistently from 1975.[31] |
| Rev. Dr. Andrew Clark | 3 million | 5 years | 1914–1919 | 92 volumes.[32] |
| Harold Nicolson | 3 million | 34 years | 1930–1964 | Diplomat, journalist, Member of Parliament, junior minister, writer, critic & broadcaster.[33] |
| George Cecil Ives | 3 million | 64 years | 1886–1950 | "…122 volumes and approximately 3 million words."[34] |
| John Quincy Adams | 3 million | 69 years | 1779–1848 | Nearly 3 million words, 1,400 pages, 51 volumes.[35] |
| George C. Edler | 2.859 million | 80 years | 1907–1987 | Diary from 1 January 1907 to 25 February 1987, the day of his passing.[36] |
| Richard Grayson | 2.4 million | 19 years | 1969–1988 | Published diary entries from 1 August 1969 to 21 August 1988[37][38] |
| Philip Hone | 2 million | 23 years | 1828–1851 | “…twenty-eight quarto volumes…”[39] |
| Henry David Thoreau | 2 million | 25 years | 1837–1861 | Over 2 million words in 39 notebooks.[40] [41] |
| Edward Nason[f] Wrench | 2 million | 56 years | 1856–1912 | Nearly 2 million words[42] in 57 vols.[43] |
| Naomi Mitchison | 2 million[44] | 6 years | 1939–1945 | Participant in Mass Observation. Diary published forty years after she wrote it.[45] |
| Beatrice Webb | 1.79 million | 70 years | 1873–1943 | Diaries available online.[46] |
| Chen Xiukang | 1.5 million | 4 years | 2012–2016[g] | Began keeping a diary to cope with his wife's death.[47] |
| Samuel Pepys | 1.25 million | 9 years | 1660–1669 | Written in shorthand.[48] The 1893 edition is available online.[49] |
| Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine | 1 million | 61 years | 1878–1939 | 12 volume diary.[50] |
| Jean Lucey Pratt | 1 million | 61 years | 1925–1986 | Over a million words in 45 exercise books.[51] |
| Ernest Achey Loftus | Unknown | 92 years[h] | 1896–1987 | Guinness World Record for longest kept diary.[52][53] |
| Evie Riski | Unknown | 89 years [54] | 1936–2025[i] | "A 100-year-old American woman has journalled every day for 90 years… nearly 33,000 entries…"[55] [Actually 89 years or 32,547 days] |
| Albert Memmi | Unknown | 83 years | 1936–2019 | Yale archive has journals to 2019;[56] "…hundreds of school notebooks…"[57] |
| Robert W. Ramsay | Unknown | 82 years | 1869–1951 | Diaries from April 1869 to January 1951. 44 vols.[58] Commenced when he was 8 years old.[59] |
| Julien Green | Unknown | 79 years | 1919–1998 | "…he wrote with an audience in mind…"[60] |
| Betty from Lancashire | Unknown | 76 years | 1942–2018 | "…diaries were meticulously completed every day, and record almost all her everyday activities."[61] |
| Robert Parry | Unknown | 74 years | 1539–1613 | Diary written in Welsh.[62] |
| Frances Partridge | Unknown | 74 years | 1927–2002 | Diary from 31 October 1927[63] to 15 March 2002, her 102nd birthday.[64] |
| Anne Perkins | Unknown | 74 years | 1935–2009 | American, Quaker, librarian at Swarthmore College. Over one hundred volumes, only 16 were preserved.[65] |
| Henry Edward Price | Unknown | 74 years | c.1830–1904 | Cabinet maker, begins with reminiscence of childhood.[66] |
| Robert Birrel | Unknown | 73 years | 1532–1605 | Burgess of Edinburgh, diary of incidents in Scotland.[67] |
| Jeremiah Moseley | Unknown | 73 years | 1803–1876 | 18 volumes.[68] |
| John Amphlett | Unknown | 73 years | 1854–1918 | 42 volumes, extremely full accounts.[69] |
| Emma Katherine Bigwood | Unknown | 73 years | 1862–1935 | "…brief daily entries"[70] |
| Daniel Times | Unknown | 72 years | 1776–1848 | Coroner, medical diary.[71] |
| Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle | Unknown | 72 years | 1798–1890 | 51 vols, September 1814–January 1815 and 1837–86.[72] |
| Sir Arthur Pendarves Vivian | Unknown | 72 years | 1851–1923 | 64 volumes, personal and travel journals.[73] |
| Joseph Jeppa Anderson | Unknown | 72 years | 1878–1950 | 20 volumes.[74] |
| Thomas Asline Ward | Unknown | 71 years | 1800–1871 | Master Cutler of Sheffield in 1816. Some entries in French, Italian or Latin.[75] [76] |
| Prince George, Duke of Cambridge | Unknown | 71 years | 1832–1903 | Enormous and consistent record of his whole life.[77] |
| Ellen Laetitia Philips | Unknown | 71 years | 1842–1913 | 48 volumes: 1842, 1850-79, and 1881–1913.[78] |
| Ethel Rudkin | Unknown | 71 years | 1912–1983 | "…filled dozens of notebooks."[79] [80] |
| William Ewart Gladstone | Unknown | 70 years | 1826–1896 | Private diary, 1826 to 1895 or 1896.[81] [82] |
| Mary Barwick Baker | Unknown | 70 years | 1834–1904 | Née Fenwick. Personal notes entered in annual volumes.[83] |
| Lady Louisa de Rothschild | Unknown | 70 years | 1837–1907 | Diary from July 1837 to December 1907 (with gaps).[84] |
| Lady Anne Noel Blunt | Unknown | 70 years | 1837–1917 | Née King. 214 volumes, July 1847 to November 1917.[85] |
| Violet Bonham Carter | Unknown | 70 years | 1899–1969 | Diaries online.[86] |
| Sir Moses Montefiore | Unknown | 69 years | 1814–1883 | 85 vols.[87] [88] |
| William Beaumont | Unknown | 69 years | 1816–1885 | British lawyer. Diary April 1816–November 1885 (with gaps): 15 vols. Travel journals 1825–1842.[89] [90] |
| John Oxley Parker | Unknown | 69 years | 1829–1898 | Land-agent: diaries and day-books.[91] High Sheriff of Essex in 1883. |
| Claude Mauriac | Unknown | 69 years | 1927–1995 | Lejeune gives both 68 and 69 years. "We have yet to count the total number of pages, but the journal measures three and a half meters."[92] |
| Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle | Unknown | 68 years | 1789–1857 | 41 volumes. Her two sisters also kept diaries.[93] |
| Fanny Knatchbull | Unknown | 68 years | 1804–1872 | Second wife of 9th Bart. Diaries 1804–72 (with gaps). 69 vols.[94] |
| Colonel John Coke | Unknown | 68 years | 1820–1887 | Diaries with gaps, 11 vols.[95] |
| Frances Russell, Countess Russell | Unknown | 68 years | 1830–1898 | Social diary, November 1830–January 1898.[96] |
| Queen Victoria | Unknown[j] | 68 years[k] | 1832–1901 | Over 100 volumes.[99] Her daughter Beatrice copied selected passages from the journals and burned many of the originals.[100] |
| Angelo Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) | Unknown | 68 years | 1895–1963 | Published in 1964 as Journal of a soul.[101] |
| Rev. Thomas Smith | Unknown | 67 years | 1721–1788 | May 1721–May 1788; mostly brief, impersonal notes.[102] |
| Lady Emily Theophilia Ashbrook | Unknown | 67 years | 1813–1880 | Née Metcalfe. Diaries and travel journals, c.1813–1880: 57 vols.[103] |
| Rev. John Brownlow | Unknown | 67 years | 1816–1883 | Diary and memoranda, part recollection.[104] |
| J. Taylor | Unknown | 67 years | 1826–1893 | Diary with gaps, family and local (Sutton-on-Trent) events.[105] |
| John Burroughs | Unknown | 67 years | 1854–1921 | American naturalist & author; March 1857–February 1921.[106] |
| Charles Whitwell | Unknown | 67 years | 1888–1955 | Detailed daily events, January 1888–July 1955; 70 vols.[107] |
| Alan Withington | Unknown | 67 years | 1931–1998 | "Lengthy daily entries with many photographs attached."[108] |
| Luca Landucci | Unknown | 66 years | 1450–1516 | Florentine apothecary.[109] |
| Sarah Savage | Unknown | 66 years | 1686–1752 | Welsh diarist, as was her father Rev. Philip Henry.[110] |
| John Wesley | Unknown | 66 years | 1725–1791 | Daily, even hourly, memoranda were his diaries; the enlarged, fuller versions were his Journal.[111] |
| Capt. James Stackpole | Unknown | 66 years | 1755–1821 | "Diary, with journal of 1790–1821."[112] |
| Jacob Nagle | Unknown | 66 years | 1775–1841 | American Sailor, at sea for forty-five years.[113] |
| Stephen Terry | Unknown | 66 years | 1795–1861 | Sporting diaries and reminiscences.[114] |
| Katherine Arundel | Unknown | 66 years | 1804–1870 | Meetings with French emigrés, tours and pilgrimages.[115] |
| Charles Cardale Babington | Unknown | 66 years | 1825–1891 | Botanical diary, brief entries.[116] |
| Richard Thomas Lloyd | Unknown | 66 years | 1832–1898 | Family matters; tour of the Continent in 1838.[117] |
| Jane Edmunds | Unknown | 66 years | 1834–1900 | Diary with gaps, 1 vol.[118] |
| Edward George Percy Littleton | Unknown | 66 years | 1864–1930 | 3rd. Lord Hatherton. Diaries with gaps, 3 vols. Brief entries, military career.[119] |
| Frederick Augustus Dixey | Unknown | 66 years | 1869–1935 | Distinguished entomologist. 20 vols.[120] |
| William Henry Hallam | Unknown | 66 years | 1886–1952 | 63 volumes, broken only twice between 1894 and 1897.[121] |
| Richard Meinertzhagen | Unknown | 66 years | 1899–1965 | British soldier, intelligence officer, and ornithologist: 76 vols.[122] |
| Rev. Ivory Hovey | Unknown | 65 years | 1738–1803 | Written mostly in shorthand: nine octavo volumes, about 7000 pages.[123] |
| Rev. John Mill | Unknown | 65 years | 1738–1803 | Parish work in Shetland and North Hebrides.[124] |
| Frances Burney | Unknown | 65 years | 1768–1833 | March 1768–March 1833; diary, memoirs and letters.[125] [126] |
| Mary Berry | Unknown | 65 years | 1783–1848 | Author. Diary from May 1783–August 1848, regularly from 1807.[127] [128] |
| William Darling | Unknown | 65 years | 1795–1860 | Lighthouse-keeper, father of Grace Darling. Private diary, April 1795–October 1860.[129] |
| Sir Ernest Mason Satow | Unknown | 65 years | 1861–1926 | 39 volumes, November 1861–December 1926 (with considerable gaps).[130] |
| Sir Sydney Cockerell | Unknown | 65 years | 1886–c.1951 | Museum curator and collector. Diary from January 1886 to c.1951.[131] [132] |
| Rt. Rev. Gwynne | Unknown | 65 years | 1888–1953 | Missionary in the Sudan. Diaries, papers, sermons etc.[133] |
| Hester Thrale | Unknown | 64 years | 1757–1821 | [134] |
| General William Dyott | Unknown | 64 years | 1781–1845 | [135] [136] |
| Sir Rowland Hill | Unknown | 64 years | 1813–1877 | Eleven volumes.[137] |
| William Robson | Unknown | 64 years | 1817–1881 | [138] |
| Rev. Andrew Bonar | Unknown | 64 years | 1828–1892 | Written in shorthand.[139] |
| Anaïs Nin | Unknown | 64 years | 1913–1977 | Published diaries extend to 1974.[140] |
| Rev. Samuel Fairclough | Unknown | 63 years | 1614–1677 | Written in Greek and Latin.[141] [142] |
| Thomas Gardiner | Unknown | 63 years | 1661–1724 | Brief notes.[143] |
| Elizabeth Laugher | Unknown | 63 years | 1731–1794 | Née Mascall.[144] |
| Susanna Holyoke Ward | Unknown | 63 years | 1793–1856 | [145] |
| Joseph Hunter | Unknown | 63 years | 1797–1860 | Much of it is in shorthand.[146] |
| Ellen A. Hall | Unknown | 63 years | 1838–1901 | Has gaps. 22 vols.[147] |
| Emily Mary Hall | Unknown | 63 years | 1838–1901 | Has gaps. 23 vols.[148] |
| Leo Tolstoy | Unknown | 63 years | 1847–1910 | [149] |
| Reginald Charles Edward Abbot | Unknown | 63 years | 1856–1919 | Has gaps. 54 vols.[150] |
| Dr. Michael Thomas Sadler | Unknown | 63 years | 1860–1923 | Medicine, science, travels, reading, Gilbert and Sullivan.[151] |
| Annette Susannah Beveridge | Unknown | 63 years | 1865–1928 | Née Ackroyd; 62 vols.[152] |
| Paul Léautaud | Unknown | 63 years | 1893–1956 | [153] |
| Sanjōnishi Sanetaka | Unknown | 62 years[154] | 1455–1537 | His Sanetaka Kōki is also given a duration of 63 years.[155] |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | Unknown | 57 years | 1893–1950 | Word count not stated; the manuscript exceeds 50,000 pages.[156] |
William Matthews, in his British diaries: An annotated bibliography of British diaries written between 1442 and 1942 (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1950) lists 400 diaries with a duration of 30 years or more.
Wikipedia has a list of books on diaries and journals.
Notes
- ^ Said to be a pseudonym.[1]
- ^ "The full unedited diaries [in 2007] amount to around fifteen million words."[11] A figure of 20 million refers to "the full archive."[12]
- ^ According to article from 2015.
- ^ According to article from 2022.
- ^ Total word count 5,632,524 words.[22]
- ^ Matthews gives Nason, Batts gives Mason.
- ^ According to article from 2016.
- ^ From 1 January 1895 to 31 December 1986, 33,602 days.
- ^ According to article dated 25 February 2025.
- ^ It is calculated that she wrote an average of 2,500 words a day, or sixty million words. However this estimate includes correspondence, notes, minutes, annotations and memoranda as well as her diary.[97]
- ^ From 31 July 1832 to 11 January 1901, 68 years and 5 months.[98]
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