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 1776 in THE LADIES’ Own Memorandum-Book: OR, DAILY POCKET JOURNAL, For the YEAR 1776, published yearly in London by G. Robinson. The title page describes the journal as being ‘Designed as a Methodical REGISTER of all their Transactions of Business, as well as Amusement’, and under the table of contents, it is announced as being written ‘By a LADY’. The 1776 journal consists of eighty-two unnumbered leaves and is bound in a brown leather cover with a simple design impressed around the edges of the leather. The diary of 1776 includes an array of items both before and after the spaces reserved for daily entries.
