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Lady Monkswell

“... I hope & pray that we are escaping from my great enemy the heat. I never appreciated before what a cruel giant the heat is.”
- Lady Monkswell,
- in E.F.C. Collier, ed., A Victorian Diarist: Extracts From the Journals of Mary, Lady Monkswell 1875-1895 (1944)

Lady Monkswell, English diarist

(1849 - 1930)

Full name: Baroness Mary Josephine Hardcastle Collier Monkswell.