I didn't know about this book until recently. I had read and loved 'I Know My Own Heart' (republished in 2010 as 'The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister') in 1989. This, Helena Whitbread's second book, first published in 1992, is the lesser-known follow-up, covering the period Sept 1824 to Oct 1826....
The problem with the journals of real people is they just end. There is no narrative conclusion and without this sham resolution, I am very sad about her death, years in the future of this book. There was so much about her I liked and admired and so much - her classism mostly - that would have make ...
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