| Description | This diary begins on 19th June 1888, the day of Elizabeth Taylor's wedding to Quaker businessman and housing reformer George Cadbury. Her entry for this date reads:
'Write letters - all arrange flowers - dress - go to meeting house - married - bridesmaids: Frances, Jessie, Josephine, Una - nice Mt. - George Gillet spoke - Fathers, Uncles Tom & George prayed - 44 to lunch relations etc. - George & I & Will Cadbury, [by] Mother's Mt. tea to Euston - Claude to see off - arrive Stafford-'.
The diary covers the following periods:
19th June 1888 - 31st December 1888
1st January 1889 - 31st December 1889 (including a particularly long entry for Saturday 30th March 1889 which begins 'Baby was born! Laurence John', marking the birth of Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's first son Laurence John Cadbury.)
1st January 1890 - 31st December 1890
1st January 1891 - 31st December 1891 (including a particularly long entry for 24th March 1891 which begins 'Journal neglected for long - too much happened - sadness & ilness, to write.')
1st January 1892 - 31st December 1892
1st January 1893 - December 1893 (including a particularly long entry marked 'Dec' which reveals that Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury did not fill in her diary from 19th November 1893 until she wrote this entry which covers the whole of December 1893.)
1st January 1894 - 31st December 1894 (a number of entries covering the period 15th October 1894 - 18th October 1894 are included opposite entries for 15th December 1894 - 31st December 1894 which covers Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's visit to Paris.)
A decorative postcard is enclosed loose within this diary featuring a drawing of cottages in Bournville surrounded with rural imagery. The postcard features the words 'Ex Libris George & Elsie M. Cadbury Aedificandum Esc' indicating that it may have been a bookplate printed by the Cadburys for books in their household library. |