Diary of an Ennuyee

Boston: Lilly, Wait, Colman, and Holden, 1833. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo 7" - 7. A cute, little sentimental volume of "A Lady's" diary set mostly in Europe, "published exactly as it was found after the death of the Author, varied only by the omission of certain names. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in brown paper over boards, some loss thereof at spine head and foot, gilt-stamped title to spine. Chipping to, scuffing of spine head and foot, cracking to joints at head and foot. Lightly foxed of interior, else clean and unmarked. According to her Wikipedia entry, Anna Brownell Jameson (17 May 1794 – 17 March 1860) "was an Anglo-Irish art historian whose work spanned art and literary criticism, philosophy, travel writing, and feminism. She became very well known for her extensive writings. Jameson was connected to some of the most prominent names of the period including Joanna Baillie, Fanny Kemble, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Robert Browning, Harriet Martineau, Ottilie von Goethe (the daughter-in-law of Goethe), Lady Byron, Harriet Hosmer, Ada Lovelace, Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon." Born in Dublin, Ireland, 17 May 1794. When age 16, "she became governess in the family of Charles Paulet, 13th Marquess of Winchester." The genesis of the book was that she accompanied a pupil after ending an engagement on a trip to Italy and wrote the following as an "autobiographical" narrative "under the guise of an unnamed and ailing young woman who eventually dies." The diary was given to a bookseller who published it as The Diary of an Ennuyée (1826). Her solo traveling and rejection of a suitor were considered scandalous. [1] ix [1] 2-268 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.