The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
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Excerpt
The aim of these stories is not historical exactitude nor
unbending
accuracy in dates or juxtaposition. They are rather an
attempt to
re-create the personalities of a succession of charming women,
ranging
from Elizabeth Pepys, wife of the Diarist, to Fanny Burney and
her
experiences at the Court of Queen Charlotte. As I have
imagined them, so I
have set them forth, and if what is written can at all revive
their
perished grace and the unfading delight of days that now belong to
the
ages, and to men no more, I shall not have failed. Much is
imagination,
more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself.
I have
wished to set them in other circumstances than those we know.
