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 1820 in what appears to be either The Ladies’ Own Memorandum-Book or an imitation thereof. However, as in the case of the 1814 pocketbook, the title page is missing, although a note appears near the end of the book in the bottom margin (after a list of country dances) to indicate that it was printed by J. Darling. The 1820 journal consists of seventy-five leaves and is bound in plain black leather with an embossed double line around the edges. Inchbald used the ‘Account of Cash’ sections of this pocketbook in a way similar to that which she had used in the pocketbooks from 1788, 1807, 1808 and 1814.