Secret Diaries Past & Present Quotes

“She also kept literary indexes of books, newspapers, magazines, etc., which she purchased or obtained from the library.”
― Helena Whitbread, Secret Diaries Past & Present

“16.9.1823 Writing my journal has amused & done me good. I seemed to have opened my heart to an old friend. I can tell my journal what I can tell none else.”
― Helena Whitbread, Secret Diaries Past & Present

“At night and during winter afternoons, in the absence of adequate lighting, Anne wrote by candlelight and had only one precious copy of her writings.”
― Helena Whitbread, Secret Diaries Past & Present