Poyntz, Isabella

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Scope and Content

A volume entitled A new Commonplace Book... properly ruled throughout with a complete skeleton index, and ample directions for its use... . London. Printed for Walker & Edwards, 44 Paternoster Row. Inscribed on the front fly-leaf 'Isabella Poyntz from her Uncle Courtnay Boyle.' The entries include passages from Samuel Johnson, Mme. de Staël, Blair's Sermons, Pestalozzi.

Administrative / Biographical History

Isabella Poyntz was the daughter of William Stephen Poyntz and Mary Elizabeth Montague. She married Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter in 1824.

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