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confession album
The confession album, or confession book,〔So called by e. g. A. A. Milne, ''Not that it Matters '', London: Methuen (1921), 79; ''Once a Week '', London: Methuen (1922), 180.〕 was a kind of autograph book popular in late nineteenth century Britain. Instead of leaving free room for invented or remembered poetry, it provided a formulaic catechism. The genre died out towards the end of the century, with occasional brief revivals in the twentieth century. The same kind of form is now found in the Dutch ''vriendenboek'' ("friends book") and German ''Freundschaftsbuch'' ("friendship book"), used by small children; and the questions that the confession album contained live on in the Proust Questionnaire often used for celebrity interviews.
==Questions==
The questions posed in a confession album varied from volume to volume. A typical set of questions, in a book from the 1860s, is given below along with the answers of one respondent (see picture, right). The same set of questions were presented to Queen Victoria's second son, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1873,〔The earliest dated answer in the album pictured is 1868. Prince Alfred's answers are given in A.M. Broadley, ''Chats on Autographs'', London: T. Fisher Unwin (1910), 148-51, with the comment: "It is not often that Royalty honours one of those irritating social tortures entitled 'An Album of Confessions to Record Thoughts and Feelings.'" ((online ) at archive.org).
〕 to Marcel Proust around 1885 and to Claude Debussy in 1889.〔Touttavoult (1990), 14-17 (Proust) and 138-9 (Debussy).〕
Among the questions found in other albums, several seem designed to help courtship, sometimes with a reflection of changing relations between the sexes, for instance "What is your opinion of the girl of the period?", " What is your opinion of the man of the period?"〔Matthews (2000), 137-8; 141; 145.〕
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