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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 Turner, Thomas ___ 1729-1793 ___ British ___ tradesman BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Turner was a Sussex shopkeeper in East Hoathly. He married Margaret Slater in 1753. They had one child but he died when three weeks old. Turner is only remembered because he left behind an interesting diary, lasting around 10 years, full of details about domestic and village life as well as a surprising amount of self-revelation. Charles Dickens quoted from Turner's diary in 'All the Year Round'; and Ponsonby says the diary 'is an amazing production, containing, as it does, the most outspoken confessions combined with almost ridiculous penitence and pretentious moralising'. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1754-1765 ___ domestic social village self WEB TEXT LINKS substantial extracts (printed page images) ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS East Sussex Record Office SOME PUBLISHED TITLES The Diary of Thomas Turner 1754-1765 Extracts from the Diary of a Sussex Tradesman, a Hundred Years Ago 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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