Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index.

'... your being totally ignorant who we are'

'How charming might you and I live together and despise them all'

A lady traveller in Wales. 'This awfull scenery makes me feel as if I were only a worm or a grain of dust on the face of the earth.' Mrs. Siddons. 'I feel very differently.'

'Nine-thirty till three.'

'Impossible ... whenever two ladies live too much together.'

'Three o'clock. Dinner.'

'...stately and difficult of access.' Relationships

'Pleasures unknown to vulgar minds.' Correspondence

'Nine till twelve. In the dressing room.'

'Midnight.'

'... those abnormally self advertised old frumps.' The myth