The production of a female pen
Subtitle: Anna Larpent's account of the Duchess of Kingston's bigamy trial of 1776
By: transcribed and with an introduction by Matthew J. Kinservik.
Contributors: Kinservik, Matthew J., 1967-; Lewis Walpole Library.
Edition: Facsimile ed.
Series: Miscellaneous antiquities ;; no. 17
Publisher: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University; Distributed by University Press of New England
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [Farmington, Conn.]; [Hanover, N.H.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Bigamy) -- England.
Description: "On 15 April 1776 the House of Lords convened as a jury in Westminster Hall to try the Duchess of Kingston for bigamy. The Hall was transformed into a theater-in-the-round for the four thousand spectators, making the five-day trial a notorious event of that London season. The diarist Anna Larpent, then an unmarried girl of eighteen, was among the crowd. She wrote thirty-eight pages recording her informed observations with immediacy and in vibrant detail. Recently rediscovered at The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, her manuscript is reproduced here in its entirety. The text is introduced and transcribed by Matthew J. Kinservik and illustrated with works from The Lewis Walpole Library."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Based on a manuscript at the Lewis Walpole Library.