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 1781 in THE LADIES’ Own Memorandum-Book: OR, DAILY POCKET JOURNAL, For the YEAR 1781, published yearly in London by G. Robinson. The 1781 journal consists of seventy-nine unnumbered leaves, though it originally had more, as at least two leaves (probably blank) have been cut out of the front. Both front and back covers have pockets (now empty), and the front cover has a flap that probably once folded over all of the pages. The pocketbook measures roughly 12.5 cm in length by 8 cm in width by 1.5 cm in thickness. The diary of 1781 includes an array of items both before and after the spaces reserved for daily entries.
