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Mistress Of Charlecote : Mistress of Charlecote, Paperback / softback Book

Mistress Of Charlecote : Mistress of Charlecote Paperback / softback

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A delightful memoir of Mary Elizabeth Lucy and her life at Charlecote. Mary Elizabeth Williams, an heiress from North Wales, was only twenty when in 1823 she reluctantly married George Lucy and became mistress of Charlecote Old Hall in Warwickshire.

Sixty years later she wrote this engaging account of her life for her grandchildren. It was a life of great happiness, for she grew to love her husband deeply.

Her country home, her children, the London season and a tour abroad all brought joy and fulfilment.

But her contentment was marred by tragedy as few of her many children survived her.

Her words reveal a character of great strength and determination.

High-spirited, discerning and delightfully free from prudishness, Mary Elizabeth Lucy draws pen-portraits of the people she met - Queen Victoria and Sir Walter Scott among them - and provides an authentic view of life in fashionable 19th-century society.

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