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Informationen zum Autor Frances Burney Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 captures the changing times around her. She includes portraits such as the mad' King George, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick, and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chronology Introduction Further Reading Family Tree Manuscript Sources Note on the Text Journals and Letters 1768-1777 The Apprentice Years 1778-1781 Evelina and Streatham Park 1782-1786 Cecilia and Prelude to the Court 1786-1791 The Court Years 1791-1792 London and the Western Tour 1793-1795 Courtship and Marriage1796-1802 Camilla and Camilla Cottage 1802-1812 Ten Years in France 1812-1814 Interlude in England: The Wanderer 1814-1815 Waterloo 1815-1818 Final Yeras with d'Arblay 1818-1839 Widowhood Index
