19th-century diarists

Henry David Thoreau

American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher

Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher

English clergyman whose diaries reflected rural life in the 1870s, and were published over fifty years after his death.

French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Acadmie Goncourt.

American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century