The book of the boudoir, Volume 1 (of 2)
Lady Morgan published The Book of the Boudoir in 1829, presenting it as a selection from the private notebooks she had kept through years of literary and social life in Dublin, London and on the Continent. This first volume runs to some fifty short pieces: recollections of Horne Tooke, the chemist Richard Kirwan, Lord Erskine and Lord Castlereagh, the Countess of Albany and Cardinal Consalvi, set among brisk reflections on egotism, idleness, reviewers, mathematical ladies, Irish judges and the charity bazaars of Dublin. Her preface admits the book is careless and egotistical by design, a light miscellany in the French manner, and it reads as a lively record of a famous hostess and the people she met. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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