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This sets the tone of the entire volume. Adaline tells of her courtship with a Prince of Spain before she finally married the Earl of Cardigan. After his death she married the Portugese Count of Lancastre. Although she came from a wealthy, well-placed family, her marriage to Cardigan brought her to a vast landed estate. She lived a very full and privileged life as a free-spirited woman (by Victorian standards). However, with the exception of some vignettes of better known people, these memoirs are largely devoted to personal experiences. One will find very little history beyond the subject's own life. As for her life, the perspective is from the uppermost reaches of society and she betrays herself to be largely out of touch with the average person. At the end of the book, she concedes that her "critics" might find her remembrances to be "trivial." They are truly that, but they are such in a most delightful way. The value of this volume is to show us from our vantage point of over a hundred year's later what life was like for the English aristocracy during the long Victorian era.