Caroline Fox's Journals may be placed high among Victorian memoirs. As a distinguished Cornish Quaker - the family wealth came from a shipping business based at Falmouth - she mixed with writers, thinkers, artists, scientists, inventors, explorers, divines and politicians. She began her Journal when still in her teens, and over some thirty-five years she enjoyed and recorded conversations with a succession of brilliant Victorians - Mill and Carlyle, Wordsworth, Hartley Coleridge, Tennyson, Elizabeth Fry, Holman Hunt, and the Polar explorers Belcher and Ross among them. This volume also includes some of her fascinating letters.

Author Biography

Wendy Trewin, who also wrote under her maiden name Wendy Monk, was the drama critic of The Lady, succeeding her husband, J.C. Trewin, in 1990. Born in Plymouth, she was a reporter on the city's Sunday newspaper, the Western Independent, where she met her husband. As an author her first book was a privately published biography of her Wesleyan great grandfather, John Gill. Later she edited the journals of the Victorian Quaker diarist Caroline Fox (1972). Under her own name she collaborated with her husband on a history of London's foremost avant garde theatre of the post war, the Arts Theatre, and in 1980 she wrote a much-praised life of the actor Charles Wyndham and the Albery family, All on Stage.