Anne Hughes: Her Boke

Presented as the diary of Anne Hughes, a farmer's wife writing in 1796 and 1797 in the country between Hereford, Gloucester, and Chepstow. Day-to-day entries cover dairying, cooking, servants, neighbours, courtship, and the work of a farm household, with recipes worked into the record. The speaker is a young married woman watching the year turn through market, kitchen, and field. The book reads as a domestic journal of late-eighteenth-century rural life: a household chronicle rather than a public history, whether taken as an original diary or as a later reconstruction of one.

13. Full orange cloth binding with a design in brown by Evora, brown leather spine-label. Pale orange endleaves. Pale brown slipcase.