Aristocrats - Caroline, Emily, Louise, and Sarah Lennox 1740-1832

The Lennox Sisters - great-granddaughters of a king, daughters of a cabinet minister, and wives of politicians and peers - lived lives of real public significance, but the private texture of their family-centered world mattered to them and they shared their experiences with each other in countless letters. From this hitherto unknown archive, Stella Tillyard has constructed a group biography of privileged eighteenth-century women who, she shows, have much to tell us about our own time...