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 1788 in THE LADIES’ Own Memorandum-Book: OR, DAILY POCKET JOURNAL, For the YEAR 1788, published yearly in London by G. G. J. and J. Robinson. In this pocketbook, Inchbald no longer kept track of her spending but used the ‘Account of Cash’ space to continue her entries from the facing page after she wrote the day of the week (underlined) to which the continuation corresponded. The 1788 diary is the first Folger diary in which Inchbald wrote the lower-case letter e differently. In the first five Folger diaries, the letter e is formed with a simple cursive loop, but by 1788, Inchbald had changed the way she wrote the letter.
