xh’s Reviews > The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea > Status Update

did you know that the male loneliness epidemic started in the late 1700s?

the moral of the story that i’m getting is do not be a crown princess consort or in modern day terms do not be married

what the… she’s gone thru so much…

finished the first of four manuscripts and she’s basically describing hell on earth

hurts so bad to read but i am so endlessly fascinated... poor girl. poor 60 year old girl.

had to stop reading here because i was gonna cry, this poor girl

this translator took so much care... i haven't even started on the main text and i can already appreciate the level of this translator's effort and thought <3

lovely lovely introduction to this translation