The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady

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This is a thoroughly charming and lovely diary, filled with gorgeous paintings and delightful observations of the English countryside around the turn of last century. Lavishly illustrated with Edith Holden's superb watercolour drawings and packed with information on the fauna and flora of over a hundred years ago. Binding and cover condition: Quarter bound, gilt title to brown cloth spine strip with cream paper covered boards.

this book would be found interesting to anybody who is interested in the Natural history or the Edwardian period. Alongside darling watercolours of the nature which she observed in her local area, Holden recorded fragments of her favourite poems by the likes of Burns, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Barrett Browning, and personal observations.It is an incredibly lovely homage to the natural world, and keen naturalists will surely find of interest how much has changed in the intervening eleven decades. Some of the entries for separate days contain weather conditions, or things of note which she saw on that given day.

March 6: Tonight a Toad was discovered jumping about in the hall; it must have come in through the garden door which has been standing open all day.To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. On every single page, it is clear that she gave such consideration to everything she put down on paper.