The Diaries of Charlotte Grove Volume II, is the second in a four-volume set, covering years 1819 -1826. 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.
- ISBN10 1447575040
- ISBN13 9781447575047
- Publish Date 28 November 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 April 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English