There was a precedent for this kind of faux-historical document (which the Athenæum reviewer, Henry Fothergill Chorley
, at once picked up on): Hannah Mary Rathbone
's The Diary of Lady Willoughby, 1844.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1215 (1851): 166
Publishing
Anne Manning
Later editions assert AM
's authorship in the form that now became standard for her, as by the author of Mary Powell. Like its predecessor, this book went through several editions, and appeared with...
