Ego documents (diaries and memoirs)

There are diaries and memoirs in the GaW Database from the 18th and 19th centuries. Such narratives are recorded by both men and women, by a priest and by two men who were farmers, as well as in a diary written by a noblewoman and a life description of an unmarried woman who worked in the households of various dignitaries. All the sources describe the writers’ everyday life and concrete use of time, including what they did for a living.

Pages in a diary by Elias Jonsson, Delsbo, Dalarna, 1752–1761. Photo: Murberget, Härnösand.

The following ego documents can be found in the GaW database

(Updated February 2024)
Century

Number of words source text

1700-talet

26 832

1800-talet

103 080

Totalt

129 912

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