Mary Linwood Comprehensive School the former Mary Linwood Secondary School. The principal sponsor of this Academy is the Church of England. The Council transferred the site of the former secondary school (Mary Linwood) to the sponsors. Samworth, Leicester's first City Academy, was built on the site of the old Mary Linwood school and completed in September, 2007. The children of author Sue Townsend attended the school during the late 1970s and early 1980s; their experiences influenced her highly successful Adrian Mole books. "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole" was reputedly based on Sue Townsend's son's experiences at the school. Several of the teachers who
Diary Adrian Mole diaries from the perspective of the then-Prime Minister John Major. Another famous example of fictional diaries as prose is Bram Stoker's "Dracula". A modern example includes the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series where each book of the series is written in a first-person view of the main character, as if the book were an actual diary. Other examples are the "Bert Diaries" and the cellphone diaries in the Japanese manga and anime television series "Future Diary". Diary A diary is a record (originally in handwritten format) with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened