Title: The Journals and Letters
First published: April 20, 1972
Description: Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of  Queen Charlotte and her years interned in France with her husband Alexandre d'Arblay during the Napoleonic Wars, she captured the changing times around her, creating brilliantly comic and candid portraits of those she encountered - including the 'mad' King George, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick and a charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. She also describes, in her most moving piece, undergoing a mastectomy at fifty-nine without anaesthetic. Whether a carefree young girl or a mature woman, Fanny Burney's forthright, intimate and wickedly perceptive voice brings her world powerfully to life.
Subjects: British, Correspondence, Diaries, English Novelists, Essays, History, Nonfiction, Novelists, English, Social life and customs, Burney, fanny, 1752-1840, Authors, english, Authors, biography, Great britain, court and courtiers, Great britain, social life and customs, Authors, correspondence, Burnett, frances hodgson, 1849-1924, Court and courtiers, Sources, Courts and courtiers, Manners and customs, Tagebuch, Briefsammlung, English Authors, Correspondance, Journal intime, English Women novelists
Places: France, Great Britain
People: Fanny Burney (1752-1840)
Time periods: 18th century, 19th century
LC classification: PR3316.A4 Z468 2001