Mistress of Charlecote: the memoirs of Mary Elizabeth Lucy 1803-1889

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Mary Elizabeth Williams, an heiress from North Wales, was only 20 when, in 1823, she reluctantly married George Lucy and became mistress of Charlecote Old Hall in Warwickshire. Sixty years later she wrote this account of her life for her grandchildren. It was a life of great happiness, for she grew to love her husband deeply.

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• Mistress of Charlecote: the memoirs of Mary Elizabeth Lucy di Mary Elizabeth Lucy (1983)