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The Journals and Letters of Susan Burney - Music and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback)
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The Journals and Letters of Susan Burney - Music and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback)
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Susan Burney (1755-1800) was the third daughter of the music
historian Charles Burney and the younger sister of the novelist
Frances (Fanny) Burney. She grew up in London, where she was able
to observe at close quarters the musical life of the capital and to
meet the many musicians, men of letters, and artists who visited
the family home. After her marriage in 1782 to Molesworth Phillips,
a Royal Marines officer who served with Captain Cook on his last
voyage, she lived in Surrey and later in rural Ireland. Burney was
a knowledgeable enthusiast for music, and particularly for opera,
with discriminating tastes and the ability to capture vividly
musical life and the personalities involved in it. Her extensive
journals and letters, a selection from which is presented here,
provide a striking portrait of social, domestic and cultural life
in London, the Home Counties and in Ireland in the late eighteenth
century. They are of the greatest importance and interest to music
and theatre historians, and also contain much that will be of
significance and interest for Burney scholars, social historians of
England and Ireland, women's historians and historians of the
family.
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