11210 Chawton House Library Previous owner's stamp inside front

Previous owner's stamp inside front cover

First edition with color illustrations by CE Brock

London: 1928

Pubilshing

Issues from 1929 and 1930 bound in 1930 in this handsome green cloth cover with black cloth spine

11210 Chawton House Library Previous owner's stamp inside frontPonsonby 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