{"id":2523,"date":"2015-03-06T12:24:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T12:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burnham-press.co.uk\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:02:40","slug":"a-de-luxe-edition-and-a-real-bargain-praise-for-the-diary-in-a-new-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burnham-press.co.uk\/archive\/a-de-luxe-edition-and-a-real-bargain-praise-for-the-diary-in-a-new-review\/","title":{"rendered":"‘A de luxe edition’: praise for The Diary of Mary Hardy"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a long review, in a top academic journal, the Burnham Press four-volume edition of The Diary of Mary Hardy<\/em> is described as “a de luxe<\/em> edition”.<\/p>\n

G.M. Ditchfield, Emeritus Professor of Eighteenth-Century History at the University of Kent, gives a very detailed account of the Diary, with its companion volume The Remaining Diary of Mary Hardy 1773\u20131809<\/em>. He describes the set as ‘a most impressively professional edition’, and concludes:<\/p>\n

“On account of the handsome appearance and the painstaking thoroughness of the edition, the cost of the four diary volumes plus the Remaining Diary<\/em> can be considered a real bargain at present-day book prices.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The review reflects on Mary Hardy’s significance as a diarist. Her record is\u00a0‘One of the most consistent, enduring and revealing primary sources of its period’.<\/p>\n

The concluding paragraph begins:<\/p>\n

‘This is a source which illuminates much of the social as well as the topographical landscape of its time, revealing the possibilities of upward social mobility in the agricultural and proto-industrialising world of the later eighteenth century.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Professor Ditchfield’s review\u00a0contains not a single criticism.<\/p>\n

The academic journal: the first in its field<\/h3>\n

The full text of the\u00a0review is published in printed form and online in the February 2015 edition of the English Historical Review<\/em>, the oldest journal of historical scholarship in the English-speaking world. Founded in 1886, it is published six times a year.<\/p>\n

Full details of where to find the review are given in the Diary Reviews<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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