The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney
Volume I: 1786
Series: Court Journals & Letters of Frances Burney 1786-1791;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 October 2011
- ISBN 9780199261604
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages394 pages
- Size 216x142x45 mm
- Weight 678 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
This volume is the first of six that will present in their entirety Frances Burney's journals and letters from 17 July 1786, when she assumed the position of Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, until 7 July 1791, when she resigned her position because of ill health.
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This volume is the first of six that will present in their entirety Frances Burney's journals and letters from 17 July 1786, when she assumed the position of Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, until 7 July 1791, when she resigned her position because of ill health. 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.
The only previous edition of the Court journals and letters is the Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay, edited by Burney's niece Charlotte Barrett and published by Henry Colburn in seven volumes, 1842-46. Barrett's edition, however, is heavily abridged. For the Court years, it excludes about half of the extant material, which will be printed in the present volumes for the first time. In addition, Barrett made no attempt to recover the thousands of lines obliterated by Burney in the Court journals and letters, and indeed added many further deletions of her own. Barrett's edition was subsequently revised by Austin Dobson in a six-volume edition, 1904-05, containing new annotations and illustrations, but no alterations to the text.
The present edition includes every extant letter that Burney wrote during her five years at Court, as well as all of her copious journals. The elderly Madame d'Arblay attempted to edit her own journals and letters, making numerous changes that would, she believed, make them fitter for publication. This edition aims to restore the manuscripts, as far as possible, to their original state. It recovers the words, lines, and entire passages that Madame d'Arblay strove to conceal and it contains a comprehensive commentary on the text.
[These volumes] constitute something of a publishing landmark.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
History of the Manuscripts and Earlier Editions
The Present Edition
Short Titles and Abbreviations
Burney Genealogy
The Burney Family: Biographical Notes
Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney from 17 July to 31 December 1786
Index
