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The diary and letters of Madame D'Arblay : (Frances Burney) / with notes by W.C. Ward, and prefaced by Lord Macaulay's essay.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia 1892 Burney
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
- Burney, Fanny.
- Novelists, English--Biography.
- Novelists, English.
- Genre:
- English diaries.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 3 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Frederick Warne & Co., 1892.
- Contents:
- [Vol.1] Preface
- Madame D'Arblay, by Lord Macaulay
- (1778) Miss Burney publishes her first novel and finds herself famous
- (1779) The author of "Evelina" in society: visits Brighton and Tunbridge Wells
- (1780-1) A season at Bath: Mr. Thrale's death
- (1781-2) Miss Burney extends the circle of her acquaintance
- (1782-3-4) "Cecilia": a pæan of praise: lamentations
- (1785-6) Miss Burney is favourably noticed by the king and queen
- (1786) Miss Burney enters upon her court duties
- (1786) Royal visit to Nuneham, Oxford, and Blenheim
- (1786-7) Court duties at Windsor and Kew. [Vol.3] (1792-3) The French political emigrants: Miss Burney marries M. D'Arblay
- (1793-6) Love in a cottage: the D'Arblays visit Windsor
- (1797-8) "Camilla" cottage: sundry visits to the royal family
- (1798-1802) Visits to old friends: West Hamble: death of Mrs. Phillips: sojourn in France
- (1812-1814) Madame D'Arblay and her son in England
- (1815) Madame D'Arblay again in France: Bonaparte's escape from Elba
- (1815) At Brussels: Waterloo: Rejoins M. D'Arblay
- (1815-8) At Bath and Ilfracombe: General D'Arblay's illness and death
- (1818-40) Years of widowhood: death of Madame D'Arblay's son: her own death.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: Wm. F.W. Reeve, 1974.
- Athenaeum has volumes 1 and 3.
- OCLC:
- 263723
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