Table of Contents



I. The Diurnal of Mrs Elizabeth Pepys
_Had she Read her Husband's Diary_

II. The Mystery of Stella
_Why might not she and Vanessa have met?_

III. My Lady Mary
_To Dispel the Mystery of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's quitting
England in 1739_

IV. The Golden Vanity
_A Story of the First Irish Beauties--the Gunnings_

V. The Walpole Beauty
_A Tale in Letters about Maria Walpole, Countess of Waldegrave,
Duchess of Gloucester, Niece of Horace Walpole_

VI. A Blue Stocking at Court
_Why Fanny Burney, Madame D'Arblay, retired from Court in 1791_

VII. The Darcys of Rosing
_A Reintroduction to some of the characters of Miss Austen's
Novels_