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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Kilvert, Francis ___ 1840-1879 ___ British ___ priest BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Kilvert was born near Chippenham, Wiltshire. Educated at private schools and at Wadham College Oxford, he was then ordained in 1864. He spent a long time serving as curate, first to his father in Langley Burrell and Clyro, where he spent seven years from 1865. In 1876, he was given his first living at St Harmon in Radnorshire. A year later, though, he found a better living at Bredwardine, near Clyro, in Herefordshire, with a more comfortable vicarage. In 1879, he married Elizabeth Ann Rowland; but, within two weeks of returning from honeymoon in Scotland, Kilvert died of peritonitis. Kilvert's diary is celebrated for his observant, lively and sensitive descriptions of parish life. After her husband's death, Elizabeth is said to have continued Kilvert's diary but to have destroyed the books containing her own writing. On her death, the diaries passed to a nephew who arranged for publication of edited extracts. However, another relation went on to destroy all but three of Kilvert's original diaries. A paedophile-friendly website carries some extracts. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1870-1879 ___ religious social weather village WEB TEXT LINKS brief extracts with music! an astonishingly disturbing website! ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections SOME PUBLISHED TITLES Kilvert's Diary Diary of Francis Kilvert May 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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