“A GILT-EDGED JOKE”
MISS KING-HALL’S “DIARY” SURPRISE FOR THE AUTHORESS LONDON, June 4. “Nobody was more surprised than I,” says .Miss Magdalen King-Hall, who is now revealed as the authoress of “The Diary of a Lady of Fashion. 1765,” “to find that the diary was a gilt-edged joke. I never thought that anybody would take it seriously. 1 drew a little of the material from Walpole's Memoirs and did the rest out of my own head. My family was not very interested. “1 kept up the mystery by denying the newspaper statements that (lie authoress was .Miss King-Hall, who, strictly speaking, is my sister. 1 must take '.lie responsibility because my family think that parts of the diary are fearfully shocking.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 19 June 1926, Page 5
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