A review by rogankeira
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea by

challenging emotional informative reflective

4.0

A tad repetitive because this collects four memoirs talking about similar events but with different intended audiences and purposes, so there is a fair bit of repeated information in terms of the "plot" of the memoir, although the focus, detail and tone of each one is different. It is of course an invaluable resource for learning about the Sado incident and the politics of the royal family as well as royal in-laws in the late Chosŏn, but I especially appreciated it as an insight into the psyche of a powerful yet powerless woman and how she viewed her and other women's position in society. 
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