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The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume V: 1789
Geoffrey Sill
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Description for The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume V: 1789
Hardback. The fifth of six volumes that will present in their entirety Frances Burney's journals and letters from July 1786, when she assumed the position of Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, to her resignation in July 1791. This volume brings together the letters and journals of 1789. Editor(s): Sill, Geoffrey. Series: Court Journals & Letters of Frances Burney 1786-1791. Num Pages: 560 pages, 13 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; BJ; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 35. .
Frances Burney (1752-1840), author Evelina and other novels, was an active diarist and correspondent with a wide circle of relatives and friends throughout her adult life. Her journals and letters are an important source of information about English social life from 1768 to 1838. In the years 1786-91, she served Queen Charlotte as Keeper of the Robes, acquiring a detailed knowledge of the events and people in the court of King George III. This volume is the record of one of those years, 1789, a year in which the King recovered from his madness, the Court took a leisurely tour ... Read more
Frances Burney (1752-1840), author Evelina and other novels, was an active diarist and correspondent with a wide circle of relatives and friends throughout her adult life. Her journals and letters are an important source of information about English social life from 1768 to 1838. In the years 1786-91, she served Queen Charlotte as Keeper of the Robes, acquiring a detailed knowledge of the events and people in the court of King George III. This volume is the record of one of those years, 1789, a year in which the King recovered from his madness, the Court took a leisurely tour ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
560
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Court Journals & Letters of Frances Burney 1786-1791
Condition
New
Weight
1g
Number of Pages
558
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199262076
SKU
V9780199262076
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About Geoffrey Sill
Geoffrey Sill received his PhD. in 1974 from the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Defoe and the Idea of Fiction (1983), The Cure of the Passions and the Origins of the English Novel (2001), and articles on Walt Whitman, Daniel Defoe, and Frances Burney. He is the co-editor (with Peter Sabor and Stewart Cooke) of The Complete ... Read more
Reviews for The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume V: 1789
The Facinations of this volume lie in these occasional flashes of the Burney of Evelina and Cecilia, and the way, almost by accident, she reveals court life at its most regressive - snobbish, insular, gossipy.
Kate Chisholm, Times Literary Supplement
Immaculately edited, generously footnoted and with a comprehensive introduction.
Maggie Lane, Burney Letter
Kate Chisholm, Times Literary Supplement
Immaculately edited, generously footnoted and with a comprehensive introduction.
Maggie Lane, Burney Letter