Journals and Letters
$42.75
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
25 May 2006
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140436242 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140436243 |
| Author: | Frances Burney, Peter Sabor |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 25 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 426g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Frances Burney
Frances Burney (1752-1840) established her reputation with her novel, ‘Evelina’ (1778). After a period in Queen Charlotte’s court, she and her husband, Alexander d’Arblay, were interned by Napoleon and lived in France until 1815. Widowed in 1818, she spent the rest of her life in London.
Peter Sabor is Professor of English at Laval University, Quebec. Lars E Troide is Professor of English and Director of the Burney Papers Project at McGill University, Montreal.
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