The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D’Arblay)

Volume III

Great Bookham 1793-1797 Letters 122-250

by Joyce Hemlow

with Patricia Boutilier and Althea Douglas

Oxford University Press, 1973, [First Edition], lightly illustrated with two black and white photographic plates and black and white photographic frontispiece, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, institute stamp on front endpaper and title page, library stickers and stamp on back endpaper, clipped dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping, chipping and minor faint staining at edges (see photographs)

“The years (1793-7) following Fanny Burney’s marriage to the chevalier d’Arblay, one of the happiest periods of her long life, were spent I a rented cottage “The Hermitage” in Great Bookham, Surrey.  On 18 December 1794 her son was born; and to augment the family income (Queen Charlotte’s pension of £100) she revised one of her blank-verse tragedies, Edway and Elgiva.  This was produced on 21 Marc 1795 and ran for that night only.  Undaunted, she wrote on industriously and her third novel Camilla, published by subscription in 1796, has been calculated to have netted the equivalent of £16,660.
The letters between Dr. Burney, his son Charles (the Greek Scholar), and his daughter, throw a great deal f light on the publishing practices of the 1790s.”