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Mistress of Charlecote
Mary Elizabeth Lucy
其他書名
The Memoirs of Mary Elizabeth Lucy 1803-1889
出版Orion, 2002
ISBN07528493019780752849300
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZnAHHQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Mary Elizabeth Williams, an heiress from North Wales, was only 20 when, in 1823, she reluctantly married George Lucy and became mistress of Charlecote Old Hall in Warwickshire. Sixty years later she wrote this account of her life for her grandchildren. It was a life of great happiness, for she grew to love her husband deeply. Her country home, her children, the London season and a tour abroad all brought joy and fulfilment. But her contentment was marred by tragedy as few of her many children survived her. Her words reveal a character of great strength and determination. High-spirited, discerning and free from prudishness, Mary Elizabeth Lucy draws pen-portraits of the people she met - Queen Victoria and Sir Walter Scott among them - and provides an authentic view of life in fashionable 19th-century society.