The Grange in 1826
From Cochrane's Guide to the Island of Guernsey, published by the author in Market-Street, Guernsey, in 1826.
19th century
The Diary of Harriet Brock Pengelley - a link
Is it indeed true am I here? divided by the Atlantic from a mother so justly adored, a father so truly beloved, my parents—Oh! let me still think I am dreaming—that I have not left you—bid you such a long, such a sad adieu.
Naftel, Street, Tranter
A link to some delighful 18th-century portrait miniatures that have found their way to Australia, and some photographs from the same collection.
What Sarah Fyers saw from a window in Gibraltar
17-year old Sarah Fyers was with her father with the garrison in Gibraltar in 1801, a few days before her wedding to Cornelius Mann, when she witnessed the first part of the Battle of Algeciras from the breakfast room. A handwritten copy of her eyewitness account is in the Dobree-Mann collection held at the Library. She was a close relation by marriage of Admiral James Saumarez, who played a crucial part in the battle and eventual victory.
French Dirt is the Worst
An amusing anecdote from a Methodist pioneer in the island.
Guernsey enterprises, 1830
Chapter XVII of Jacob's Annals, 1830, pp. 465 ff.
The Alderney cow
From Supplement to the Penny Magazine, September 1837, p. 383, republished from Volume V of the Guernsey and Jersey Magazine of 1831, with other descriptions of the Alderney cow from various sources.
Guernsey in 1775 and in 1837
By Ferdinand Brock Tupper, in Duncan's The Guernsey and Jersey Magazine III (1837), pp. 233 ff.
Emma Austen to Jane Lefroy
Jane Austen connections.
The Guernsey workman, by Charles Hugo
The decoration of the salle à manger, or dining room, at Hauteville-House, Victor Hugo's residence in Guernsey, was finished in May 1857. Charles Hugo wrote of it: