Caroline Girle
Caroline Girle (27 December 1736 - 17 November 1817) was a diarist who kept a journal throughout her life.[1] Although some volumes were destroyed, what remains is in the British Library[2] These journals earned her the sobriquet "The Oxfordshire Diarist".[3][4]
Girle was the daughter of John Girle, FRS (ca. 1702 - 1761) and Barbara Slaney (1717 - 1801),[5] and had an elder brother, John (1735 - 1746). On 5 August 1762, in Whitchurch-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, Girle married Philip Lybbe Powys; they had four children:
- Caroline (1763-1764)
- Philip Lybbe (1765-1838)
- Thomas (1768-1817)
- Caroline Isabella (1775 - 28 August 1838), who married the Rev. Edward Cooper, a first cousin of Jane Austen.
References
- ^ "Caroline Girle". www.tim.ukpub.net.
- ^ e.g. "The Annual Journal of Caroline Powys, née Girle, begun 1757": British Library, Add MS 42160 and others.
- ^ "Amazon.co.uk: Caroline Girle Powys: Books". www.amazon.co.uk.
- ^ "Powys, Caroline Girle, "Mrs. P. L. Powys,", 1738-1817 - The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
- ^ "Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry". H. Colburn. 1 October 2018 – via Google Books.