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Mrs Duberly's War

Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6

By: Frances Isabella Locke Duberly

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Mrs Duberly's War

Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6

By: Frances Isabella Locke Duberly

Mrs Duberly's journal is one of the most vivid eye-witness accounts we have of the Crimean War. Fanny Duberly, then aged 25, accompanied her husband to the Crimea in 1854, and remained there until the end of the fighting, the only officer's wife to remain throughout the entire campaign. She survived the severe winter of 1854-55, witnessed the battle of Balaklava and the charge of the Light Brigade, and rode through the ruins of Sebastopol. Spirited and courageous, she was known by sight to British and French soldiers across the battlefields, regarded often with enthusiasm and sometimes with disapproval. Witty and beautiful, she enjoyed flirtatious friendships with many of the most important men of the campaign. Her Journal Kept During the Russian War was published in 1855 and caused a sensation. Although widely praised as the new heroine for the Crimea, Fanny was also censured, ridiculed, and even parodied in Punch. She had stepped into a man's world, and written about it in a way that seemed to some at the front an invasion of privacy and to others at home an abandonment of gentility. A best-seller at the time, the Journal was not reprinted after its second edition of 1856, and this is the first edition since that time. Christine Kelly provides an introduction, biographical and explanatory notes, and an index. She makes revealing use of Fanny's original, previously unpublished, letters to her sister Selina, which often show a reckless, immediate response to events and people where the journal is more circumspect. The edition includes photographs, maps, and some of Fanny's own sketches.

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Oxford University Press

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0199532060

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Mrs Duberly's War

Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6

By: Frances Isabella Locke Duberly

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Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6

By: Frances Isabella Locke Duberly

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The Two Wars of Mrs Duberly

An Intrepid Victorian Lady's Experience of the Crimea and Indian Mutiny

By: Frances Isabella Duberly

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The Two Wars of Mrs Duberly

An Intrepid Victorian Lady's Experience of the Crimea and Indian Mutiny

By: Frances Isabella Duberly

Two feminine adventures from the age of Victoria Mrs Francis Duberly, or 'Fanny' as she was widely known, would have been a remarkable woman in any age; as the wife of a serving soldier in the Victorian era she was doubly so. This was a strong minded, resolute woman whose thoughts, opinions and values were her own. She was fiercely independent, courageous and adventurous in an age when many women of her class preferred or accepted the 'genteel' life. This would never do for Fanny Duberly. She craved a life of variety and action and found it in the company of her husband on campaign. She left us two unprecedented accounts of her experiences of warfare in the mid-nineteenth century-both of which appear in this special and superb value Leonaur edition. From the gruelling battlefields of the Crimea which were enough to satisfy anyone's lust for military experience, Fanny then travelled to India where the great Indian Mutiny had broken out and the British Army were called upon to suppress the rebellious Bengal Native Army in a war to the knife. Fanny always rose to the occasion-this is a riveting, highly recommended, double read.

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1846776988

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9781846776984

Campaigning Experiences in Rajpootana and Central India

During the Suppression of the Mutiny, 1857-1858

By: Frances Isabella Duberly

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Campaigning Experiences in Rajpootana and Central India

During the Suppression of the Mutiny, 1857-1858

By: Frances Isabella Duberly

Mrs Henry Duberly's intrepid 1859 account of her experiences with her husband's regiment during the suppression of the Indian Mutiny.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108044751

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9781108044752

Book's by Frances Isabella ("Fanny") Duberly

Mrs Duberly's War

Mrs Duberly's War

Mrs Duberly's War

Mrs Duberly's War

The Two Wars of Mrs Duberly

The Two Wars of Mrs Duberly

Campaigning Experiences in Rajpootana and Central India

Campaigning Experiences in Rajpootana and Central India

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