FIENNES, Celia [1662-1741] -- English diarist
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Motivated chiefly by an intense curiosity, she undertook a number of journeys through England in the period 1685-1703. Her remarkable journal of those travels was lost for more than 140 years and was rediscovered only in 1885 and republished in 1888 as Through England on a Side Saddle.
That journal is now prized as a particularly insightful picture of late 17th century England, and Fiennes joins diarists Defoe, Evelyn and Pepys as important sources for understanding daily life in those times.
She is often identified with the nursury rhyme, "Ride a Cock Horse". Banbury, a small town in Oxfordshire, was the family seat, and the phrase "on a fine horse" is construed to be a corruption of "up a Finnes horse".
Ride A cock-horse To Banbury Cross To see a fine lady On a white horse With rings on her fingers And Bells on her toes She shall have music Wherever she goes
Bookmarks (off-site links) |
- Works by
- Analyses, critiques and interpretations
- The Journeys of Celia Fiennes - Cover Page: February 1998 British Heritage Feature Three hundred years ago, a remarkable woman travelled alone through every
- Analyses, critiques and interpretations
- Works about
- Biographical
- Specific periods, events, aspects
- Celia Fiennes
- Genealogy
- Our Family from 1066 to 2001 RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project
- Memorials, tributes, shrines
- Bibliographies and Link Farms
- Biographical
- Historical context, background
- Residences
- St Paul's Cathedral Celia Fiennes described St. Paul's Cathedral in her journal in 1702.
- BBC Online - Beyond the Broadcast - Mapping the Town
- Gallery
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