| Louisa makes her diary entries in the evening in the
upstairs bedroom she shares with her sister Phebe. The room evidently
affords a view to the southwest, where the "avenue"
ascends
from the Cole Harbour Road. Her writing area may be near
the window at which at other times she likes to sit and, perhaps while
reading, keep an eye on the comings and goings on the road below.
On some nights she must curtail her writing for the cold (O23 ); on other nights, because her "candle is most out." (S25 ) |