Journals and Letters PDF Frances Burney

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At first she expresses no aversion to remaining single. When a well-to-do and well-educated young man, Thomas Barlow, tries to court her she resists family pressure and rebuffs him because he does not touch her heart. But in 1782 she meets George Owen Cambridge, a young clergyman whose charm, sincerity and intelligence penetrate her defences. His failure ultimately to propose causes her great emotional anguish. A similar, though less painful, disappointment happens at Court when she is ‘led on’ by Colonel Stephen Digby, Vice-Chamberlain to the Queen, who instead marries a wealthy Maid of Honour.

Disappointment of another sort is caused by the marriage of Hester Thrale to Gabriel Piozzi in 1784. Virtually adopted by Hester and Henry Thrale after the success of Evelina, Burney in her journals mostly shows us the surface of the Thrales’ marriage, which is that of a dutiful and respectful wife to a masterful husband; indeed, Hester

• Book Name: Journals and Letters pdf
• Author Name Frances Burney
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2010

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