Description

In 1856, the time of Miss Isabel Adeane’s intended marriage, the dowager Lady Stanley of Alderley was outraged that the banker Robert Smith’s ‘deficiency in blood and with such a name’ was a suitable match for her granddaughter. Time proved her wrong and the devoted young Smiths raised a family of twelve, established a new parish church and built a mansion in Hertfordshire amongst their many other interests.

In her widowhood, Mrs Robert Smith wrote some recollections for her children remembering those bygone days of her youth at Babraham, near Cambridge and her married life at Goldings. Discovered years later in a black tin box, their great-grandaughter has edited this engaging memoir now republished in it’s second edition.

Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Lavenham Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 0953804275
ISBN 13: 9780953804276
Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 15 x 0.8 cm