Edited by the LADY CHARLOTTE PEPYS.
"This work resembles several productions of the last few years. The
Diary professes to be written by a noble young lady of the sixteenth
century. 'Lady Adolie' has an advantage over most of its precursors in
the greater depth and variety of the incidents. The Journal begins just
before the accession of Bloody Mary, and ends with the martyrdom of the
youthful writer at Smithfield.... The book is charmingly written; the
kindly, simple, loving spirit of a girl in her teens, thrown much upon
her own resources, is truthfully depicted, as well as the firm piety of
that age."--_Spectator._
"The familiar conversation of the day, as sought to be reproduced in
this Diary, wears an appearance of singular truthfulness, and whether
the topic be the deathbed of good King Edward, the merits of Somerset,
Ladye Jane Grey, her Grace the Ladye Elysabeth, the Queen herself, or
the demeanour of her Spanish husband, the proceedings of Cardinal Pole,
the doings at the Tower prison, the volume reflects as in a faithful
mirror the opinions current in the national mind."--_Globe._
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