Mabel Eden's Diary
Mabel Eden

Mabel Eden was among the very best of diarists. From 1878 to 1949 she described an aristocratic life of unceasing leisure, but constant endeavour, one that sometimes resembled an up-market soap opera.

Mabel Eden's Diary is an immense achievement by a woman who was a curious mix of pride, humility, vanity and self-awareness, and whose long life story can be irresistible. She put down her pen a decade before she died, leaving the reader with an odd sense of bereavement, a power that very few diaries possess.

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Diary of The Besieged Resident In Paris
Henry du Pré Labouchère

Stranded in Paris by the Prussian siege of 1870, Henry Labouchère's despatches to the London Daily News have the air of a bachelor uncle describing to his worldly friends the demise of a decadent nephew.

Sad, but not surprised by the city's inevitable capitulation, he dissects the futile speechifying, politicking and insane optimism with forensic skill, humanity and wit. Diary of The Beiseged Resident In Paris is a masterclass in sardonic understatement, from the finest tradition of great Victorian journalism.

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Up the Country
Emily Eden

Up the Country is Emily Eden's gently comic first-hand account of the chaotic but magnificent Progress of her brother the Governor-General, Lord Auckland, with 12,000 camp followers through the Northern provinces of India in the late 1830s.

With infectious delight at the marvels of India, and a down to earth appreciation of its people, Miss Eden happily pokes fun at the English, as well as herself. Her sense of humour effortlessly punctures the pomposity of the grand Progress, but in this wonderful journal she never misses its point.

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