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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Small gift message in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> On Febrary 16th 1846 a young Donegal woman called Lucy Johnston sat down to begin a diary. It would be a record like no other of the Great Famine. The diary was not ostensibly about the Famine. It was a personal account of how a teenage member of a minor gentry family spent her time. As she walks and visits sews and sings gardens and dances plays chess and plays backgammon and strums her guitar a picture emerges of the family’s pastimes preoccupations and outlook in the mid-19th Century. There are no anguished descriptions of soup kitchens. Deaths are recorded in a line or two. Famine-related activities by her brothers and father are mentioned in passing. This was a girl who took the world about her for granted and who had little awareness of the momentous nature of the times in which she lived.