THE DIARY AND HOURES OF THE LADYE ADOLIE,
A FAYTHFULLE CHILDE, 1552.
Edited by the LADY CHARLOTTE PEPYS.
"This work resembles several productions of the last few years. The Diary professes to be written by a noble young lady of the sixteenth century. 'Lady Adolie' has an advantage over most of its precursors in the greater depth and variety of the incidents. The Journal begins just before the accession of Bloody Mary, and ends with the martyrdom of the youthful writer at Smithfield.... The book is charmingly written; the kindly, simple, loving spirit of a girl in her teens, thrown much upon her own resources, is truthfully depicted, as well as the firm piety of that age."—Spectator.
"The familiar conversation of the day, as sought to be reproduced in this Diary, wears an appearance of singular truthfulness, and whether the topic be the deathbed of good King Edward, the merits of Somerset, Ladye Jane Grey, her Grace the Ladye Elysabeth, the Queen herself, or the demeanour of her Spanish husband, the proceedings of Cardinal Pole, the doings at the Tower prison, the volume reflects as in a faithful mirror the opinions current in the national mind."—Globe.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "CHILD'S PLAY."
In medium 4to., handsomely bound, price 15s.