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 1807 in THE LADIES’ OWN MEMORANDUM-BOOK, OR DAILY POCKET JOURNAL, FOR THE YEAR 1807, printed yearly in London by C. Whittingham, Dean Street, for G. Robinson, Scatcherd and Letterman, and W. J. and J. Richardson. The 1807 journal consists of seventy-four leaves and is bound in a plain red leather cover. Inchbald used the ‘Account of Cash’ sections of this pocketbook in the same way that she had used those of the 1788 pocketbook. She did not keep track of her spending but used the space to continue her entries from the facing page after she wrote the day of the week (underlined) to which the continuation corresponded.
