Saturday, September 08, 2007

Lucy Cavendish

A 2-volume edition of her diaries was published in 1927 - now sadly out of print. STOP PRESS: An edition is available in the US

The Dictionary of National Biography confines her to the entry under her husbands name: As a widow, she gave an impression of pious seclusion, declining the mistress-ship of Girton College, Cambridge, in 1884. And for a long time I simply called her by the shorthand form of Lady Fred in my research notes


Light dawned one day however & I realised that the Cambridge college must be named after her.

A talk she gave about education is also available

Lord Lytteltons Daughters by Sheila Fletcher, published in 1997, tells the story of Lucy & her sisters, making use of all their diaries