Too Many Pears
Thomas Keymer: Frances Burney, 27 August 2015
The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney 1786-91, Vols III-IV: 1788
edited by Lorna Clark.
Oxford, 824 pp., £225, September 2014,978 0 19 968814 2 Show More
edited by Lorna Clark.
Oxford, 824 pp., £225, September 2014,
“... and Elgiva, with its theme of regicide, was kept secret), so she turned to diary-keeping. Lorna Clark’s meticulously documented edition covers 1788, Burney’s most prolific year at court (600 pages in manuscript; 220,000 words). It is the centrepiece of a complete edition that now supersedes the heavily abridged one edited by Burney’s niece ... ”
