Available by request from the Lewis Walpole Library.
The Production of a Female Pen: Anna Larpent’s Account of the Duchess of Kingston’s Bigamy Trial of 1776. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 2004.
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Based on a manuscript account of the trial in the collection of the Lewis Walpole Library. Facsimile of the original Larpent manuscript, introduced and transcribed by Matthew J. Kinservik and illustrated with works from The Lewis Walpole Library.
From the book jacket: “On 15 April 1776 the House of Lords convened as a jury in Westminster Hall to try the Duchess of Kingston for bigamy. The Hall was transformed into a theater-in-the-round for the four thousand spectators, making the five-day trial a notorious event of that London season. The diarist Anna Larpent, then an unmarried girl of eighteen, was among the crowd. She wrote thirty-eight pages recording her informed observations with immediacy and in vibrant detail.”
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