Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Early Diary of Frances Burney, Vol. 2 of 2: 1768-1778; With a Selection From the Correspondence, and From the Journal of Her Sisters Susan and Charlotte Burney
As Dr. Burney was partly disabled by rheumatism during this, the year before the publication of the first volume of his History of Music, she must have plied a busy pen. Besides copying for him, Wiiting her own private fancies and vagaries, and keeping her journal, (which, even in its mutilated condition, contains more than a hundred large quarto pages), she established herself as Mr. Crisp's anecdote monger, by writing him a series of letters of from six to twelve large quarto pages, ten of which letters have been preserved. In these she described scenes while they were still vivid before her eyes, or reported conversations which were almost sounding in her ears. The corresponding accounts in her journal are often retrospective, being written as she could snatch time, at some distance from the events. They are perhaps a little more orderly in arrangement of speeches, and incidents than the letters; otherwise they differ very little. Now and then, the letters have details which are omitted in the journal, and vice versc'i; but the difi'erence is not considerable. Here and there, we give such extracts from the letters as are complementary to the narratives of the journal. In the case of the first'appearance of Gabrielli, and the Concert for Prince Orlofi' at Dr. Burney's house in November, it seemed worth while to give a great part of the narrative in the letter, as well as that in the journal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
