The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-1765 by Cleone Knox (D. Appleton & Co., 1926)
This book, published in 1926, purports to be the (edited) diary of a real person, namely Cleone Knox, recorded over the year of 1764-1765. The daughter of a wealthy Irish family, Cleone spends her twentieth year traveling from Ireland to London, Bath, France, Switzerland, and Italy with her doting father and deadbeat brother (her mother is dead). She adroitly and amusingly records details of her travels and impressions of the many people and places she encounters in lively, bright, and very descriptive prose. Her journey is full of event and romance(s), and reading this book is entirely delightful and transporting.
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