The Diaries of Charlotte Downes Volume 1 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780955722639)

The Diaries of Charlotte Downes, Volume I, is the third in a four-volume set, covering years 1828, 1829, 1831-1837. The diaries afford the reader a glimpse of a small corner of rural England from the Regency through to the early-mid Victorian periods when life was based on a timeless and often precarious agricultural economy, a rigid, inequitable class system and deference to an authoritative Church. Charlotte, the daughter of an influential Wiltshire land-owner, was first cousin to the poet Shelley; she later married Richard Downes, rector of Berwick St John. Her diaries, together with those of her sister, Harriet, have been described by one authority as "like a novel by Jane Austen, but for real". This full transcription contains entries spanning a period of almost fifty years and provides a useful resource for scholars and social historians alike. Family historians will find recorded within these pages an extraordinary number of named individuals, from families representing all sections of society.

Author: John Lane,Valerie Lane Kay
ISBN-10: 0955722632
ISBN-13: 9780955722639
Publisher: Claret Jug Publications
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2009
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.94lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d