Journals and Letters

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.

ISBN 0140436243   Pages 624 ISBN13 9780140436242 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd   Weight (grammes) 426 Imprint Penguin Classics   Published in London Format Paperback   Series editor Ingham, Patricia Publication date 31 May 2001   Series title Penguin Classics S. Writer of introduction Sabor, Peter   Height (mm) 198 Library of Congress 2001277681   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 823.6   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General

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