The Diary of Elizabeth Dillon

This diary portrays both a public world that has vanished and a private self that endures. Furthermore, while displaying an acute political consciousness, the light shed on an upper middle-class family in late-Victorian England is vibrant social history. This book has been meticulously edited from an estimated 800,000 words in her 38 journals, preserved among the Dillon papers in Trinity College Dublin by Irish Times journalist and historian, Brendan O Cathaoir.