{"product_id":"the-diaries-of-charlotte-downes-volume-1","title":"The Diaries of Charlotte Downes  Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Diaries of Charlotte Downes, Volume I, is the third in a four-volume set, covering years 1828, 1829, 1831-1837. The diaries afford the reader a glimpse of a small corner of rural England from the Regency through to the early-mid Victorian periods when life was based on a timeless and often precarious agricultural economy, a rigid, inequitable class system and deference to an authoritative Church. Charlotte, the daughter of an influential Wiltshire land-owner, was first cousin to the poet Shelley; she later married Richard Downes, rector of Berwick St John. Her diaries, together with those of her sister, Harriet, have been described by one authority as Òlike a novel by Jane Austen, but for realÓ. This full transcription contains entries spanning a period of almost fifty years and provides a useful resource for scholars and social historians alike. Family historians will find recorded within these pages an extraordinary number of named individuals, from families representing all sections of society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44261352210593,"sku":"9780955722639","price":57.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1yvmz4mm-front-shortedge-384_3d0522de-399e-4398-afa4-86a786dbd670.jpg?v=1714496413","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/the-diaries-of-charlotte-downes-volume-1","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}