Marie Bashkirtseff's Journal [in French] and Barbellion's The Journal of a Disappointed Man were both famous in their day, and remain well worth reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Bashkirtseff
http://www.archive.org/details/journaldemarieba01bashuoft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._N._P._Barbellion
http://www.archive.org/details/journalofdisappo00barbuoft
Both writers died young and their journals obviously refer to this,but both avoid self-pity and are engaged with the world.hefyd
Journals [Marie Bashkirtseff & WNP Barbellion]
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Can we read the journals of the Donner Party survivors? I saw the American Experience (on PBS) documentary about them last night, then found a link to one of the diaries via Wikipedia.
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Barbellion's Journal of a Disappointed Man has been recorded:
https://librivox.org/the-journal-of-a-disappointed-man-by-w-n-p-barbellion/
https://librivox.org/the-journal-of-a-disappointed-man-by-w-n-p-barbellion/
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