Publisher's Synopsis
Illustrated with portraits. In this collection of stories the author takes an imaginative stroll through the lives of ladies in history. Contents: The Diurnal of Mrs. Elizabeth Pepys, Had she Read her Husband's Diary; The Mystery of Stella, Why might not she and Vanessa have met?; My Lady Mary, To Dispel the Mystery of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's quitting England in 1739; The Golden Vanity, a Story of the First Irish Beauties-the Gunnings; The Walpole Beauty, a Tale in Letters about Maria Walpole, Countess of Waldegrave, Duchess of Gloucester, Niece of Horace Walpole; A Bluestocking at Court, Why Fanny Burney, Madame D'Arblay, retired from Court in 1791; and The Darcys of Rosing, a Reintroduction to some of the characters of Miss Austen's novels.
