The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley<br><br>These selections from the private journals of the late Lady Knightley are given to the world in obedience to her own wishes. Some years ago she expressed a hope that it might be possible to publish some portions of her Journals and asked me to undertake the task. This request was confirmed in a letter found among her papers after her death. Not the writer added modestly that the story of my life is worth telling but because I think some of the things that it con tains may interest and amuse my friends and possibly appeal to a wider public. The present volume begins with the Journal first started by Lady Knightley in 1856 and carries the story down to the year 1884. This period includes the whole of her childhood and youth as well as fifteen years of her married life and ends with the death of the Duke of Albany with whom she had been closely connected in the lifetime of her father Sir Edward Bowater. Some parts of the Journal relating to important public events or family affairs have been supplemented by passages from Lady Knightley''s weekly letters to her mother Lady Bowater who lived to an advanced age and only died.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.