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 1814 in what appears to be either The Ladies’ Own Memorandum-Book or an imitation thereof. However, the title page is missing, although the final page carries the notation that the book was printed by J. Darling. The 1814 journal consists of seventy-three leaves (at least three additional leaves – including the title page – were cut from the book at some point) and is bound in plain red leather with an embossed double line around the edges. Unlike in earlier years, however, Inchbald did not list the underlined day of the week for the continuations of the entries, since she wrote the continuations immediately to the right of the daily entries to which they correspond.
