The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney: Volume II: 1774-1777
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Product details:
- Edition number and title :Volume II: 1774-1777
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 27 September 1990
- ISBN 9780198125822
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 212x145x24 mm
- Weight 512 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece, 4 halftones 0
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Short description:
In the first volume of this new edition, Fanny's earliest journals are published for the first time in their original state, freed from the prudent afterthoughts of her old age. The years 1774-1777, covered in the second volume, saw Fanny Burney's increasing occupation with her novel Evelina, which she finally completed.
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The years 1774-1777 saw Fanny Burney's increasing occupation with her novel Evelina, which she finally completed and presented to the publisher Thomas Lowndes. Like her novel, the journals of this period reveal her artistic powers as she continues to sketch characters with economy and precision and create convincing narratives out of the events of her life. Among the more memorable figures she meets at her father's London house are the `noble savage' Omai, the first Tahitian brought back to England; the famed explorer James `Abyssinian' Bruce, who returned from Africa with tales of natives who ate raw flesh; and Prince Aleksei Orlov of Russia, who had murdered Czar Peter III in order to permit Peter's wife Catherine (`the Great') to ascend the throne. Other notable figures include Dr Samuel Johnson and the great singer Lucrezia Agujari, admired by Mozart. Also in these pages the usually diffident Miss Burney takes charge of her destiny by rebuffing her suitor Thomas Barlow, who has wealth, education, good looks, and the vehement approval of most of her family, but whom she finds a total bore.
`... edited as scrupulously as ever ... There is a great deal of pleasure and information to be gleaned from these journals ...'
Ian A. Bell, Times Literary Supplement
Table of Contents:
List of illustrations; Short titles and abbreviations; Early journals and letters of Fanny Burney from 7 February 1774 to post 11 November 1777; Appendices: 1. Fanny Burney's first letter to Thomas Lowndes; 2. A letter of Mrs Elizabeth Allen Burney to Fanny Burney; 3. Fanny Burney's letters to Esther Burney, July 1770; Index
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