The Diaries of Grace Emily Mackarness (1856-1944)

Front cover

Back cover

Grace's handwriting

Grace Mackarness nee Milford, wife of Archdeacon Charles Coleridge Mackarness, kept a daily diary for much of her married life. Most surviving diaries were written while she lived in Scarborough, a few in Aylesbury and East Knoyle. 

Thanks to Alison Goodman for the loan of some diaries, and to Dorset History Centre for allowing access to the ones Grace kept before her marriage.

The selections/transcriptions vary in length.  Some are extensively transcribed, some (if repetitive) less so. Some include images of people or places that Grace refers to.

Click the links below to read the diaries.

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There are no  diaries (that we know of) from the almost thirty years Grace spent in Oxford after the death of her husband Charlie in 1916.

​Selections from the 1880 diary are still being transcribed, and will be uploaded to the site when ready.