The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in 1764-5

Published in 1925 as if it were an authentic eighteenth-century journal, this is a novel in diary form about Cleone Knox, a young Irishwoman who leaves a country house for Dublin, London, and a continental tour in 1764-65. She records balls, clothes, suitors, and the irritations of chaperones and relations, in a voice that mimics period spelling and gossip. The book was later acknowledged as fiction by Magdalen King-Hall. It is a pastiche diary of fashion and travel, not an edited historical document.

Quarter bound in green cloth, cream paper sides patterned in brown and yellow-brown. Dark brown-green endleaves. Pale grey slipcase.