num_pages: 224
description: It was the journals of Grandfather Daniel Gurney's sisters, one of them Elizabeth Fry, which first fired 15-year-old Laura Troubridge to keep her own journals from 1873. The father of the six Troubridge children was Colonel Sir Thomas St Vincent Troubridge, a hero of the Crimean War who became an ADC to Queen Victoria, and who died a few weeks after his young wife in 1867. The six orphans then went to live at Runcorn in Norfolk with their grandfather. He was very old-fashioned and had changed nothing since the death of his wife, Lady Harriet Gurney, in the 1830s.In Laura Troubridge's journals and memoirs, she records family life in Victorian England with vivid portraits of her relatives, governesses and tutors. She describes picnics and excursions, staying in country houses, visits to London and finally her engagement. Already she was designing decorative tiles and Christmas cards and illustrating children's books. Later, as Laura Hope, she became well-known as a pastellist and painted Queen Victoria's grandchildren at Osborne.The journals are illustrated by the author's own drawings and by family photographs.
language: English
title: Life Amongst the Troubridges: Journals of a Young Victorian 1873-1884
titlecomplete: Life Amongst the Troubridges: Journals of a Young Victorian 1873-1884
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Tite Street Press