In the previous post I wrote about this day-book which contained extracts from Dickens produced in America and written by his eldest daughter. This particular copy had been used to document the life of a little girl born in the late 1890s.
Increasingly the book seems to have fallen into the little girl’s hands and once a year for her mother she recorded her handwriting.
The book continues to capture the paper ephemera of a life including a marriage and this programme for a piano recital she gave in 1921.
Something of a life captured…
The Solitary Reader 