A Model of Time Representation in the Nineteenth Century: The Spaces for Written Culture in Diary of a tour in Sweden, Norway and Russia, in 1827 with letters by Lady Elizabeth Mary Grosvenor, Marchioness of Westminster

Abstract

This article aims to rebuild, from a specific case such as the analysis of the Diary of a tour in Sweden, Norway and Russia, in 1827 with letters by Lady Elizabeth Mary Grosvenor, the way in which a social group belonging to the nineteenth century, the nobility, offered in written form, in our case the formula of the diary with interspersed letters, one of the basic dimensions of its exis- tence as a society: the time, its social organization and the different facets in which that time has been recorded in writing. Thus, by intervening the axis of time, and based on various documentary sources, we will review visits to educational institutions; entertainment and leisure linked to theatre and music; sending and receiving correspondence; the acquisition of books and writing supports and the synchronous time in relation to Genealogy and History reflected on the pages of this diary. All this from the methodological perspective of the studies of Social History of the Written Culture in connection with Gender studies.