THE LADIES OF ALDERLEY:
Being the letters between
Maria Josepha, Lady Stanley
and her daughter-in-law
Henrietta Maria Stanley
during the years 1841-1850,
edited by Nancy Mitford
Date of First Publication: 1938
Sister volume to The Stanleys of Alderley
CRITIQUE QUOTES:
‘The task of editing – always difficult where family relationships are to be disentangled and casual notations to be identified – is admirably done. The reader is kept adequately informed without being bewildered by any ostentatious parade of scholarship.’
Times Literary Supplement
(Maria Josepha Stanley to Henrietta Maria Stanley, 18 March 1842)
‘I think the Income Tax a very disagreeable thing but so do I blue pills, rhubarb or castor oil.’