Manuscript commonplace book.

Biddulph (Penelope)

Manuscript commonplace book.

Description: Manuscript in ink on paper in a single, neat, sloping hand, pp. [136], a few of which blank, 4to, original roan backed boards, spine a bit worn, Penelope Biddulph's signature inside the front cover, good

Publication Details: [?Ledbury: c. 1780]

Notes: Contains fables, some in verse, and other literary pieces, including some quite long stories, as well as copies of letters between Penelope and her sister Mariana, and a friend Maria del Carmen Sardi de Valasco. All in Spanish, apart from translations into English provided for some proverbs (equivalencies rather than literal translations). The Biddulphs were a Herefordshire family, friends with the Barretts of Hope End, near Ledbury - where Elizabeth Barrett, later Browning, spent most of her childhood: at least one letter from EBB to Penelope Barrett exists (in the Armstrong Browning Library)...moreContains fables, some in verse, and other literary pieces, including some quite long stories, as well as copies of letters between Penelope and her sister Mariana, and a friend Maria del Carmen Sardi de Valasco. All in Spanish, apart from translations into English provided for some proverbs (equivalencies rather than literal translations). The Biddulphs were a Herefordshire family, friends with the Barretts of Hope End, near Ledbury - where Elizabeth Barrett, later Browning, spent most of her childhood: at least one letter from EBB to Penelope Barrett exists (in the Armstrong Browning Library) and various Biddulphs crop up in her correspondence. A similar, somewhat later, commonplace book is in Southampton University Library, whose catalogue notes a 'liberal' view of Spanish politics. The final entry here is a hymn to liberty, beginning 'Libertad, Libertad, sacrosanta.' HIDE