Category
page 1Women diarists
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Canadian writer (1874–1942)

Marie of Romania
last Queen consort of Romania (1875-1938; r. 1914-1927)
Maria Dąbrowska
Polish writer (1889–1965)

María Elena Walsh
Argentine author and composer

Ichiyō Higuchi
Japanese writer
Zofia Nałkowska
Polish prose writer, journalist & dramatist (1884-1954)

Hannah Szenes
Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II
Etty Hillesum
Jewish diarist (1914-1943)

Zlata Filipović
Bosnian writer
Princess Hélène of Orléans
Princess of France
Fang Fang
Chinese writer
Rutka Laskier
diarist
Diana Budisavljević
Austrian humanitarian (1891–1978)
Hélène Berr
French writer
Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Haha
10th-century Japanese poet
Renia Spiegel
Polish-born diarist and holocaust victim
Adèle Hugo
2nd daughter of Victor Hugo (1830–1915)
Françoise de Graffigny
French writer (1695-1758)
Ruth Maier
Austrian author and holocaust victim (1920–1942)
Aya Kitō
Japanese diarist (1962–1988)
Eva Heyman
Holocaust victim
Julie Manet
French painter and art collector (1878-1966)
Helga Deen
author of a diary, discovered in 2004
Carolina Maria de Jesus
Brazilian writer (1914–1977)
Mary Berg
Polish-born Holocaust survivor and author of a Holocaust diary (1924-2013)
Eugénie de Guérin
French women writer (1805-1848)
Teresa Wilms Montt
Chilean writer (1893-1921)
Catherine Pozzi
French poet
Selma Engel-Wijnberg
Dutch Holocaust survivor (1922–2018)
Alice Voinescu
Romanian essayist, translator and writer (1885–1961)
Hana Maria Pravda
British actress (1916–2008)

Dang Thuy Tram
Vietnamese physician (1942–1970)
Anna Potocka
Polish noble and artist (1779 - 1867)
Věra Kohnová
Czech Jewish diarist (1929–1942)
Teodora Krajewska
Austro-Hungarian physician, writer and teacher
Saima Harmaja
Finnish poet and writer (1913–1937)
Rywka Lipszyc
Polish concentration teenage camp survivor
Malla Silfverstolpe
Swedish salon-holder (1782–1861)
Gusta Dawidson Draenger
Polish Jewish activist under the Nazi occupation
Militsa Nechkina
Russian historian (1901–1985)
Elisabeth Leseur
French mystic (1866-1914)
Marie Festetics von Tolna
Hungarian countess, lady-in-waiting (1839-1923)
Sophie Dedekam
Norwegian composer
Nina Lugovskaya
Russian artist (1918-1993)
Agneta Horn
Swedish writer
Maro Makashvili
Georgian National Heroine (1901–1921)

Märta Helena Reenstierna
diarist (1753-1841)
Gabriela Puzynina
Polish princess, poet, comedian, diarist

Elizabeth Simcoe
British artist and diarist (1762-1850)
Aline Réveillaud de Lens
French painter and writer
Hélène Massalska
Polish aristocrat and diarist (1763-1815)
Anna Maria Hinel
Elizabeth Smart
Canadian poet and novelist (1913-1986)
Klementyna Czartoryska
Polish noble (1780-1852)
Rose de Freycinet
French explorer (1794–1832)
Elise Aubert
Norwegian writer
Henriette Dessaulles
Canadian writer, diarist and journalist (1860–1946)
Henriette Widerberg
Swedish opera soprano
Yoko Moriwaki
thirteen-year-old Japanese girl
Hansine Andræ
Early Danish feminist (1817–1898)