The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal of British Studies, 46 (4), pp 796-825 2007, © 2007 by The North American Conference on British Studies. This article provides an interpretation of the reception of puritan diaries and autobiographies in the long seventeenth century. Versions of the article were read to seminars at the Institute of Historical Research, the Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge, and Oxford and to the Reformation Studies Colloquium in 2006. RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : History