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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 Preus, Linka ___ 1829-1880 ___ Norwegian ___ n/a BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Caroline (Linka) Keyser was born in Kristiansand. Her mother died when she was 10 and her father, a priest, when she was 17. She was sent to Bergen, to her mother's sister, who was also married to a priest. She married Herman Amberg Preus and together they emigrated, in 1851, to the US, settling in Spring Prairie, Wisconsin. Herman was a pastor too, and he eventually became president of the Norwegian Lutheran Synod in America. Christian Keyser Preus, their son, became the second president of Luther College. Linka is largely remembered for her drawings of Luther College and the Decorah area from the 1850s and 1860s. Luther College says about her diary, translated in 1951, that it records details of her life as well as thoughts and feelings. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1845-1864 ___ domestic religious childhood self family farming US WEB TEXT LINKS several quotes ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS Luther College SOME PUBLISHED TITLES Linka's Diary: On Land and Sea 1845-1864 November 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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