Mary Hardy Commentaries – 2020 release date
The Diary of Mary Hardy, covering the years 1773-1809, has been edited by Margaret Bird and published in four volumes (plus a “Remaining” volume). Burnham Press has announced the four companion volumes of commentary, under the title MARY HARDY AND HER WORLD, is to be released on 23 April 2020.
Mary Hardy and Her World offers more than 3000 pages (not including their indexes!) and covers topics relevant to the main diaries. See the Burnham Press for information on each volume:
Mary Hardy and Her World comprise the following:
- A Working Family (vol. 1)
- Barley, Beer and the Working Year (vol. 2)
- Spiritual and Social Forces (vol. 3)
- Under Sail and Under Arms (vol. 4)
The commentary will be available as a set or individually (as are the main Mary Hardy Diary volumes). The Burnham Press homepage has cover images of all Mary Hardy volumes.
You can keep up with the “Mary Hardy” news on this page.
To read more about Margaret Bird, the editor of the diary / author of the commentaries.
To read a sample of life as lived by Mary Hardy and her family, see Margaret Bird’s article “Supplying the Beer: Life on the road in late-eighteenth-century Norfolk” (The Local Historian – Journal of the British Association for Local History) [Oct, 2015]
Margaret Bird joined me in “conversation” in the early days of this blog, soon after publication of the Mary Hardy Diaries.
Two Teens in the Time of Austen 
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