By Peter Sabor, Frances Burney
Written in the course of a seventy-year interval, from 1768 to 1839, Frances Burney's letters and journals offer a distinct perception into her existence and instances. distinctive by means of their extraordinary variety and diversity, they list Burney's adventure of English courtroom lifestyles and later, in France, the ultimate phases of the Napoleonic Wars. From the self-centered and irreverent writings of a precocious younger lady to the extra sober reflections of a mature girl, this assortment demonstrates Burney's fabulous skill to seize the altering occasions round her and create brilliantly candid photographs of these she encountered through the process her eventful life.
This version comprises an informative advent, in addition to a chronology, chosen analyzing record, index, and entire contextual annotations. The models of the texts during this assortment are according to the manuscripts or revealed assets that Burney herself licensed.
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Dialect and other s pecial uses are often indicated by marginal glosses. The first note includes brief contextual or historical explanations, comments on compositional details, and finally, publication data, including copy-text information. Such methods of annotation draw attention to three major sources of allusion among Victorian writers, the Authorized (King James) version of the Bible, the Greek and Latin authors, and Shakespeare. We have given titles only, without the authors’ names, for well-known works by Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton, and we use Arabic not Roman numerals for divisions of classical and other texts.
For instance, the basement piers, columns, and girders of St. Pancras Station and Hotel (1868) were built according to the measurement of the beer barrels from the largest British breweries at Burton-on-Trent to maximize storage efficiency. The cost of food and the rate of wages played a direct role in political and social change throughout the century. Corn Law riots for lower taxes after 1815 culminated in massacre in 1819 at St. Peter’s Field in Manchester (known ever after as Peterloo). Protests c ontinued, and joined cause a little later with the agitation of the Chartists, demanding increased suffrage and parliamentary reform.
The traditional producers of cloth by hand spinning and weaving were superseded by waterand then steam-driven machines, located in mills that quickly were surrounded by growing towns of ill-housed and poorly-fed workers. Steam engines required coal, p utting new pressures on the mechanization of the mining industry. Further changes came from the transportation and distribution of goods by means of railways and steam locomotives, which transformed both landscape and work. They represented the new ideals of industrialism: efficiency, speed, production, and profit, and nothing could impede their progress.