A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt, published in 2015, is derived from private diaries she kept between 1925 and 1986.
The book, entitled Lovely Peggy: The Life and Times of Margaret Woffington was published under the pseudonym Janet Camden Lucey.
[4] Reviewing it in The Spectator, C. E. Vulliamy remarked on the author's "very detailed and accurate knowledge of stage-life in the eighteenth century" and pronounced that the book merited "a prominent place" in "the special category of theatrical biographies".
According to an obituary, her shop was "the largest supplier of specialist cat books in the country", with mail order customers around the world.
[1]: 709 Beginning in 1939, Pratt kept a diary for Mass-Observation, a British research organization that enlisted volunteers to write about their lives.
Our Hidden Lives, published in 2005, covered the postwar period up to 1948, while We Are at War (2006) and Private Battles (2007) drew on wartime diaries.
[7] Our Hidden Lives was adapted into a 2005 television film for BBC Four by David Eldridge with Sarah Parish playing the Maggie Joy Blunt character.