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 1780 in THE LADIES’ Own Memorandum-Book: OR, DAILY POCKET JOURNAL, For the YEAR 1780, published yearly in London by G. Robinson. The 1780 journal consists of seventy-eight unnumbered leaves and is bound in a brown leather cover with a line impressed around the edges of the leather. The back cover is a pocket, although the top and bottom of the pocket have detached from the exterior cover. Because the back cover pocket of the 1780 journal is loose at the top and bottom, it now constitutes little more than an extra page at the end of the pocketbook. It does, however, contain two items, the second of which is from 1776.
