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The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney - Volume V: 1789 (Hardcover)
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The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney - Volume V: 1789 (Hardcover)
Series: Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney 1786 - 1791
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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 through
the southwest counties of England, and Burney was disappointed in
love by the romantic (if sometimes melancholy) Vice-Chamberlain of
the Queen, Colonel Stephen Digby. To her sister Susannah Phillips,
Burney confided her most secret hopes and reservations, subjecting
herself to a rigorous examination as she sought to balance prudence
with feeling. Fatigued by her service to the Queen and distressed
by the inscrutable moodiness of Colonel Digby, Burney lived through
and recorded the details of one of the most memorable years of the
national life of Great Britain. This volume is 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. Burney's later journals have been edited as The Journals
and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame d'Arblay), 1791-1840 (12 vols.,
1972-84). Her earlier journals have been edited as The Early
Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (4 vols. to date, 1988- ). The
Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney continues the modern
editing of Burney's surviving journals and letters, from 1768 until
her death in 1840. This volume includes all of her journals,
diaries, and letters from the momentous year 1789, the year in
which the King recovered from his madness, the Court toured the
southwestern counties of England, and Burney endured a frustrating
romance with the Queen's Vice-Chamberlain. The text is a full and
accurate edition of Burney's manuscripts held at the New York
Public Library and the British Library.
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