Caroline Girle (27 December 1736 – 17 November 1817) was a

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who kept a journal throughout her life. Although some volumes were destroyed, what remains is in the

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. These journals earned her the

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"The

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Diarist". Girle was the daughter of John Girle (–1761) and Barbara Slaney (1717–1801), and had an elder brother, John (1735–1746). On 5 August 1762, in

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, 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

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