The Marchioness Grey of Wrest Park
Statue of Jemima Marchioness Grey at Wrest Park
photo: Elisabeth Field
Although described in the introduction as ‘a life’, this book, written as a guide to more than 7000 letters held in Bedfordshire Archives, is far more than that. It is a biography of Jemima, Marchioness Grey (1722-1797), mainly pieced together from the voluminous correspondence between the Marchioness and her two daughters. It recounts her life from infant to grandmother.
The travel journal of her husband, Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, in England and Scotland during 1744-1763 has been included in the volume.
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