Elizabeth, Baroness Willoughby of Parham

Lady Willoughby , the supposed author of the diary, was an actual person (born into the well-known Cecil family), who died in the year 1661. The work gives evidence of painstaking research into the two...

HMR anonymously published her best-known work: a fiction in the guise of a historical document, The Diary of Lady Willoughby. This first volume was to accumulate various additions and revisions.