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The diaries of Charlotte Downes
Charlotte GroveJohn Lane
其他書名
1828, 1829, 1831-1837
出版Lulu.com, 2009-12-06
主題Biography & Autobiography / General
ISBN09557226329780955722639
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mn4iAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.