Oh those Lotharios
Alison Light: Jean LuceyPratt, 17 March 2016
A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean LuceyPratt
edited by Simon Garfield.
Canongate, 736 pp., £12.99, April 2016,978 1 78211 572 4 Show More
edited by Simon Garfield.
Canongate, 736 pp., £12.99, April 2016,
“... The early entries in Jean LuceyPratt’s journals brought to mind Cecily’s diary in The Importance of Being Earnest, where Wilde sends up, among other things, the predictable script of boy meets girl. Long before she knows Algernon, Cecily has charted the progress of their romance in her diary, but when they meet, and Algernon falls instantly in love as planned, Cecily won’t let him read it: ‘Oh no ... ”
