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Diary fiction

Here are entered works of fiction written in diary form. Works of fiction written wholly or partially in the form of letters, telegrams, electronic mail messages, instant messages, etc. are entered under Epistolary fiction.

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• Diaries
• Fiction

• Diary fiction, American

• Dagboksromans
• Diary novels
• Epistolary journals (Fiction)
• Fictional journals
• Journal novels
• Journals, Fictional
• Novel as diary
• Novel as journal

• The diary of a beauty : a story / (Philadelphia ; London : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1915), by Molly Elliot Seawell, Pa.) Washington Square Press (Philadelphia, and J.B. Lippincott Company. pbl, illust. by Frederic Dorr Steele (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tagebuch eines bösen Buben / (München : Delphin-Verlag, [189-?]), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor, Eugen Osswald, and Hugo Botstiber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady, by Anita Loos, illust. by Ralph Barton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Charley's Log: A Story of Schoolboy Life, by Emma Leslie (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Diary of Delia: Being a Veracious Chronicle of the Kitchen, with Some Side-Lights on the Parlour, by Onoto Watanna, illust. by May Wilson Preston (Gutenberg ebook)
• Learning Theory, by James V. McConnell, illust. by Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Yellow Pearl: A Story of the East and the West, by Adeline M. Teskey (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Luck of the Dudley Grahams: As Related in Extracts from Elizabeth Graham's Diary, by Alice Calhoun Haines, illust. by Francis Day (Gutenberg ebook)
• Auskultantin päiväkirja: Pöytälaatikon salaisuuksia (in Finnish), by Ilmari Kianto (Gutenberg ebook)
• Three Sides of Paradise Green, by Augusta Huiell Seaman, illust. by C. M. Relyea (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fifteen Days: An Extract from Edward Colvil's Journal, by Mary Lowell Putnam (Gutenberg ebook)
• Self Portrait, by Bernard Wolfe, illust. by Martin Schneider (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bimmie Says, by Sydney J. Van Scyoc (Gutenberg ebook)
• Love in a Muddle, by Christine Jope-Slade (Gutenberg ebook)
• Susan, by Ernest Oldmeadow, illust. by Frank Haviland (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Wasted Generation, by Owen Johnson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tagebuch eines bösen Buben (in German), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (Gutenberg ebook)
• Polly the Pagan: Her Lost Love Letters, by Isabel Anderson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Diary of a Saint, by Arlo Bates (Gutenberg ebook)
• At the Age of Eve, by Kate Trimble Sharber, illust. by Paul Julian Meylan (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Annals of Ann, by Kate Trimble Sharber, illust. by Paul Julian Meylan (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Journal of Countess Françoise Krasinska, Great Grandmother of Victor Emmanuel, by Klementyna Tańska-Hoffmanowa, trans. by Kasimir Dziekonska (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Diary of Philip Westerly, by Paul Compton (Gutenberg ebook)
• With a Vengeance, by J. B. Woodley, illust. by Knoth (Gutenberg ebook)
• Competition, by James Causey, illust. by David Stone (Gutenberg ebook)
• Brite and Fair, by Henry A. Shute, illust. by Worth Brehm (Gutenberg ebook)
• "Sequil"; Or, Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First, by Henry A. Shute (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rescuing the Czar: Two authentic diaries arranged and translated, by James P. Smythe (Gutenberg ebook)
• People of the Whirlpool: From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife, by Mabel Osgood Wright (Gutenberg ebook)

• Through the narrows / (Boston : Sherman, French & Company, 1912, c1911), by Myrtle Lelbee Roe and French and Company. pbl Sherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Otterbrook's blessing : a delightful story gleaned from a girl's diary / (Dayton, Ohio : United Brethren Publishing House, 1902), by Mary E. Ireland and United Brethren Publishing House. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Journal de Marie Bashkirtseff, avec un portrait / (Paris : Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1903), by Marie Bashkirtseff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Picturesque Alaska [electronic resource] : a journal of a tour among the mountains, seas and islands of the Northwest, from San Francisco to Sitka / (Boston; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, 1889), by Abby Johnson Woodman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mission de la Colombie [ressource électronique] : lettre et journal de Mr. J.-B. Z. Bolduc, missionnaire de la Colombie. (Québec : De l'impr. de J.-B. Fréchette, père, imprimeur-libraire, [1843]), by J.-B. Z. Bolduc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Picturesque Alaska [electronic resource] : a journal of a tour among the mountains, seas and islands of the Northwest, from San Francisco to Sitka / (Boston; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, 1890), by Abby Johnson Woodman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage in the 'Sunbeam' [electronic resource] : our home on the ocean for eleven months / (Toronto : Rose-Belford Pub. Co., 1879), by Annie Brassey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tama : the diary of a Japanese school girl / (New York : Womans Press, 1920, c1919), by Florence Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Health care surveys using diaries / (Hyattsville, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Office of Health Research, Statistics, and Technology, National Center for Health Services Research, [1980]), by Seymour Sudman and Linda Bean Lannom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yours, John Armstrong : a novelette / (Dixton, Ill. : De Witt C. Owen, 1900), by A. D. Norris and De Witt C. pbl Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• New England diaries, 1602-1800, a descriptive catalogue of diaries, orderly books and sea journals. ([Topsfield, Mass.] Priv. print., 1923), by Harriette Merrifield Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• An extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal ... (London, Printed and sold at the New-Chapel [etc.], [17 ]-), by John Wesley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Potsdam diary ... (London, The National Review Office.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Passages from the diary of a late physician. (Leipzig, B. Tauchnitz jun., 1844), by Samuel Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Passages from the diary of a late physician / (New York : Harper & Brothers, 1838), by Samuel Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books I have read. [Printed form for a literary diary, (New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903), by Albert S. Pease (page images at HathiTrust)
• English diaries: a review of English diaries from the sixteenth to the twentieth century with an introduction on diary writing, (London, Methuen & co., ltd.; New York, George H. Doran co., [1923]), by Arthur Ponsonby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mary Paxson : her book / (Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran, 1931), by Mary Scarborough Paxson, illust. by Pelagie Doane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuscrit du Marquis d'Arbannes : journal du 16 juillet 1770 au 30 juin 1771, y compris quelques pièces en vers. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 2 (of 2): Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883, by Judith Cohen Montefiore and Moses Montefiore, ed. by Louis Loewe (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic, by Elizabeth Bisland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2): Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883, by Judith Cohen Montefiore and Moses Montefiore, ed. by Louis Loewe (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Forgotten Threshold: A Journal of Arthur Middleton, by Edward J. O'Brien (Gutenberg ebook)
• The life and character of Miss Susanna Anthony, who died, in Newport, (R.I.) June 23, MDCCXCI, in the sixty fifth year of her age. : Consisting chiefly in extracts from her writings, with some brief observations on them. / Compiled by Samuel Hopkins, D.D. Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Newport. (Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts, : by Leonard Worcester., MDCCXCVI. [1796]), by Susanna Anthony, ed. by Samuel Hopkins (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An account of the life and death of Mrs. Elizabeth Bury, who died, May the 11th 1720. Aged 76. Chiefly collected out of her own diary. ; Together with her elegy, by the Reverend Dr. Watts. (Boston: : Printed by Green, Bushell, and Allen, for D. Henchman in Cornhil., 1743), by Elizabeth Bury and Isaac Watts, ed. by Samuel Bury (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A journal, of the captivity and sufferings of John Foss; several years a prisoner in Algiers: together with some account of the treatment of Christian slaves when sick:-- and observations of the manners and customs of the Algerines. : Published according to act of Congress. (Newburyport [Mass.] : Printed by A. March, Middle-Street., [1798]), by John Foss and David Humphreys (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A journal, of the captivity and sufferings of John Foss; several years a prisoner at Algiers: together with some account of the treatment of Christian slaves when sick:-- and observations of the manners and customs of the Algerines. : [Eight lines of verse] (Newburyport [Mass.] : Printed by Angier March, Middle-Street., [1798]), by John Foss, Robert Treat Paine, Citizen of Newburyport. Algerine slaves, and etc. United States. 1795 Sept. 5 Algeria. Treaties (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An extract of Miss Mary Gilbert's journal. With some account of the Lady Elizabeth Hastings, &c. : [Four lines of Scripture texts] ([Philadelphia] : London, printed: Philadelphia, re-printed and sold by David Hall, and William Sellers., MDCCLXIX. [1769]), by Mary Gilbert (HTML at Evans TCP)

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