Mistress of Charlecote: The Memoirs of Mary Elizabeth Lucy

by Mary Elizabeth Lucy

The memoirs of Mary Elizabeth Williams, who became mistress of Charlecote Old Hall in 1823. She wrote this memoir for her grandchildren sixty years later, including anecdotes about some of the famous people she had met - Queen Victoria and Sir Walter Scott among them - and provides an authentic view of life in fashionable 19th-century society.

182 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983