ABSTRACT
This chapter includes Elizabeth Inchbald's surviving diaries, which record her social contacts and professional activities, itemize her day-to-day expenditure, and chart the development of affairs such as the Napoleonic Wars and the trial of Queen Caroline. Inchbald kept her diary of 1783 in THE LADIES’ Own Memorandum-Book: OR, DAILY POCKET JOURNAL, For the YEAR 1783, published yearly in London by G. Robinson. The 1783 pocketbook consists of eighty unnumbered leaves (two more of which have been cut out before the title page), and the book is bound in a brown leather cover with gold filigree impressed around the edges of the leather. The flap has apparently been torn off, as the right edge of the front cover is ragged, and the filigree traces the shape of a flap on the back cover.
