The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole some detail. The book also contains extracts from Sue Townsend's own diaries together with some of her essays, plus a collection of entries from an unknown teenage girl's diary written in the 1930s in Grantham. Townsend suggests that the girl was called Margaret Hilda Roberts and no one knows what became of her, although most readers will spot that this is a strong and bitter satire about Margaret Thatcher (Margaret Hilda Roberts was her maiden name). Townsend originally created this satire in the first few issues of the newspaper "Today", as "The Secret Diary of Margaret Hilda Roberts Aged 13".
Diary during wartime maintained by an officer in the unit. There are numerous examples of fictional diaries. One of the earliest printed fictional diaries was the humorous "Diary of a Nobody" by George Grossmith and his brother Weedon. 20th-century examples include radio broadcasts (e.g. "Mrs. Dale's Diary") and published books (e.g. the "Diaries of Adrian Mole"). Both prompted long-running satirical features in the magazine "Private Eye": the former entitled "Mrs Wilson's Diary" in reference to Mary Wilson, wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, the latter entitled "The Secret Diary of John Major Aged 47¾" and written as a pastiche of the