The primary remains of Jane Attwater’s diary can be found in the Attwater Papers, acc. 76, I.A.1-29, Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford. One section of her diary from 1809, the account of the death of her only daughter, appears to have been intentionally kept separate from the main portion of her diary. All of the selections below can be found (fully annotated) in Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 4, pp.  191-213; and vol. 8, pp.  117-306. For a biographical summary of Attwater's life, click here. For selections from her poetry, click here; for her hymns, click here; for her letters, click here; for selections from her diary, click here and here; for selections from her prose meditations and reflections, click here and here; for two of her informal religious discourses, click here and here.

For more on Attwater, see Timothy Whelan, Other British Voices: Women, Poetry, and Religion, 1766-1840 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 127-53.  Manuscript sources for the selections below can be found in the Attwater Papers, Angus Library, acc. 76, I.A.2; 1774 in I.A.3; and 1775 in I.A.4; 1776 in I.A.6; the 1809 selection can be found in the Reeves Collection, Bodleian Library, Box 19.1. 

For an overview of Attwater's diary during the course of her long life and a discussion of its primary characteristics, see Eloise Quinn-Valentine's essay below, “The Diaries of Jane Attwater [Blatch] (1753–1843).”