When the historian George Bancroft became American minister in London in 1846, his wife Elizabeth went with him and wrote home about everything. Her letters describe dinners, country houses and court, drives through spring countryside and meetings with the famous, including a visit to Lady Byron, as an observant New Englander enters the high society of early Victorian England.
An engaging social record of the 1840s from a well-placed American eye. Download the free EPUB.