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The aim of these stories is not historical exactitude nor unbending accuracy in dates or juxtaposition. They are rather an attempt to re-create the personalities of a succession of charming women, ranging from Elizabeth Pepys, wife of the Diarist, to Fanny Burney and her experiences at the Court of Queen Charlotte. As I have imagined them, so I have set them forth, and if what is written can at all revive their perished grace and the unfading delight of days that now belong to the ages, and to men no more, I shall not have failed. Much is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself. I have wished to set them in other circumstances than those we know.
What would Elizabeth Pepys have felt if she had read the secrets of the Diary? If Stella and Vanessa had met - Ah, that is a tenderness and terror almost beyond all thinking! How would my Lady Mary's smarting pride have blistered herself and others if the Fleet marriage of her eccentric son - whose wife she never saw - had actually come between the wind and her nobility? Was there no finer, more ethereal touch in Elizabeth Gunning's stolen marriage with her Duke than is recorded in Horace Walpole's malicious gossip? Could such beauty have been utterly sordid?
Contents:
*The Diurnal of Mrs. Elizabeth Pepys, Had she Read her Husband's Diary;
*The Mystery of Stella, Why might not she and Vanessa have met?;
*My Lady Mary, To Dispel the Mystery of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's quitting England in 1739;
*The Golden Vanity, a Story of the First Irish Beauties-the Gunnings;
*The Walpole Beauty, a Tale in Letters about Maria Walpole, Countess of Waldegrave, Duchess of Gloucester, Niece of Horace Walpole;
*A Bluestocking at Court, Why Fanny Burney, Madame D'Arblay, retired from Court in 1791;
*The Darcys of Rosing, a Reintroduction to some of the characters of Miss Austen's novels.
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