It's really interesting. There's one big question at the heart of it, which no one's ever answered, which is why people who were using notebooks all the time-in Italy, for instance, but also Germany, France, everywhere in Europe-for hundreds of years, yet no one keeps what we think of as a personal diary.
But why it happens? I really struggle to put my finger on a reason why. And interestingly, the real historians of the diary-who tend to be French and who also locate it there-they really struggled as well. They can't find anything particularly unusual about England in the 1550s, 1560s.
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