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Life Amongst the Troubridges: Journals of a Young Victorian, 1873-84 (Hardcover)

by Laura Troubridge (Author), Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster (Editor), Jacqueline Hope-Nicholson (Editor)
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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Tite Street Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (1 Jun 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0953474607
  • ISBN-13: 978-0953474608
  • Product Dimensions: 22 x 14.4 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,157,233 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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It was the journals of Grandfather Daniel Gurney's sisters, one of them Elizabeth Fry, which first fired fifteen-year-old Laura Troubridge to keep her own journals from 1873. The father of the six Troubridge children was Colonel Sir Thomas St Vincent Troubridge, a hero of the Crimean War who became an ADC to Queen Victoria and who died a few weeks after his young wife in 1867. The six orphans then went to live at Runcton in Norfolk with their grandfather. He was very old-fashioned and had changed nothing since the death of his wife, Lady Harriet Gurney, in the 1830s. In Laura Troubridge's journals and memoirs we have an inimitable, authentic eye-witness account of family life in Victorian England with vivid portraits of all their relations, governesses and tutors. She describes picnics and excursions, staying in country houses, visits to London and finally her engagement. Already she was designing decorative tiles, Christmas cards and illustrating children's books. Later, as Laura Hope, she became well-known as a pastelist and painted Queen Victoria's grandchildren at Osborne. The journals and memoirs are edited by her daughter, Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson and illustrated by the author's own drawings and by family photographs.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Look Through Time, 15 Aug 2002
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Living in modern times, we can easily forget the simple joys of life. Whilst visting England, my homeland, I stumbled upon this book by chance, and it has truly changed me. The Victorian age has always intrigued me from a young age, and this is the first book about real history that I have enjoyed. Laura vividly describes her life from the age of fifteen on to her marriage to Adrian Hope. In reading the journals, you grow with her, move in society, and finally meet Queen Victoria herself. I simply can't put into words how real this book is, and I would reccommend it to anyone. The final part to my journey with the book was when I went to North Runcton, just near here in Norfolk, and read the plaques in their church. This was a truly magical experience, one that I will never forget.
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