11210 Chawton House Library First edition with color illustrations

First edition with color illustrations by CE Brock

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Commentary with Director Joe Wright

" More scholarly than her book on JA and London

11210 Chawton House Library First edition with color illustrationsPonsonby introduces diary writing, then gives excerpts of diaries with commentary and context. Subjects include famous diarists like King Edward VI, Samuel Pepys, John Evelyn, John Wesley, the Ladies of Llangollen, Queen Victoria, Mary Shelley. There are also many less well known but still fascinating diarists included in chapters called Minor Diaries. Fanny Burney and Byron are included, as well as others in Austen's era. Second edition includes