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Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale (UK printing)

Very easy-to-read non-fiction piece about a notorious divorce case (one of the earliest after a civil divorce was made accessible to the general public in England in 1858), in which a woman's diary, containing either her feverish fantasies or the (semi-)details of an actual affair were the cornerstone of the case.

Nice look at both the people and events (leading up to, during, and after the trial) and also at the wider context. I think in part this was necessary to make up for a limited field of action and evidence, but extended sections on other cases, in particular, do not feel out of place or like interruptions and they add to the overall impact of the book. I also appreciated, and I think non-specialist audiences would, too, that there are no footnotes, and simply un-numbered endnotes at the back.

It's not a great work of scholarship, but it's fun and easy.

I'd like to check out her other books at some point - The Queen of Whale Cay and The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (fiction and nonfiction, respectively, I think?).