FRANCES BURNEY: JOURNALS AND LETTERS (PENGUIN CLASSICS) (PB)

The novelist and playwright Frances Burney was also a prolific writer of journals and letters. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and her years interned in France with her husband Alexandre d'Arblay during the Napoleonic Wars, she captured the changing times around her, creating brilliantly comic and candid portraits of those she encountered - including the 'mad' King George, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick and a charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte.