The Journal of Clarissa Trant

The Journal of Clarissa Trant Hardcover
Publisher: John Lane – The Bodley Head, 1925
Used. Cloth, G+. xxiv+335pp, colour frontis, 1 colour & 7 b/w plates, index, occasional light foxing, spine faded, otherwise a nice copy. An edited edition ( the ms diaries ran to some 28 volumes ) of the diary of Clarissa Trant [ 1800 – 1844 ] which she kept until her marriage in 1832. She travelled widly in her youth & rejected 12 suitors. The diary is quite lively – the entry for October 5th, 1829 reads – ‘I was doomed to spend another nonsensical morning varied by the arrival of Lady T…. (BIOGRAPHY, JOURNALS, DIARIES, GEORGIAN HISTORY, JANE AUSTEN)

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