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,
“... vanish from the title pages. The earliest, weightiest defence of the book came from Thomas Macaulay: his counterblast to Croker in the Whig Edinburgh Review was written to settle a private score, but he was sincere in his admiration. He found in the diary the same qualities of observation that in 1778 had made Evelina, in his view, the first ... ”