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.
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Christine Kelly has produced an excellent work, intermingling Fanny's journal with extracts from her letters, both to the press in England and to her friends and relatives at home. (Tricia Summer, Tribune Books )
The scholarly introduction and notes add considerably to the reader's enjoyment. (The Tablet )
Christine Kelly has skilfully interpolated Fanny's letters...so that they form a vivid, more outspoken counterpoint to the main narrative. (Mark Bosteridge, TLS )
This one should not be missed...[Duberly] knew she had a book in her that would keep her name alive. And she was right. (John Carey, Sunday Times (Culture) )
A vivid, irresistible first-hand account of the Crimean War. (Sunday Times )
Christine Kelly has written an excellent introduction, and her edition at last gives Fanny Duberly the recognition she deserves. s
The scholarly introduction and notes add considerably to the reader's enjoyment. (The Tablet )
Christine Kelly has skilfully interpolated Fanny's letters...so that they form a vivid, more outspoken counterpoint to the main narrative. (Mark Bosteridge, TLS )
This one should not be missed...[Duberly] knew she had a book in her that would keep her name alive. And she was right. (John Carey, Sunday Times (Culture) )
A vivid, irresistible first-hand account of the Crimean War. (Sunday Times )
Christine Kelly has written an excellent introduction, and her edition at last gives Fanny Duberly the recognition she deserves. s
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Christine Kelly read History at Trinity College, Dublin, and now lives in Oxford. An authority on the Crimean War, she took part in a recent British public television program on the campaign.
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Even before Britain declared war on Russia on 28 March 1854 (see Appendix I) troops had been posted to Malta in anticipation of their deployment to Turkey. Read the first page
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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This is a brilliant, moving and riveting book, there are not many published journals of this conflict and thats what makes fanny's diary all the more special, she never intended it to be published at the time of writing it and only re-considered when friends commented that it would be of enormous interest to the British public so that they could have a clear, defined account of not only what happened in the crimea, but also a personal insight into the troops and people who were there, a must buy book, brilliant
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This is a most interesting book on wars and how they were conducted in the late 1800s. It was a time when Officer's ladies could accompany their husbands when they went off to war and the privations and other nuisances that accompanied such trips.
In those days, rather like the Civil War in America, one could ride out and watch the battle going on and come back home for tea.
A most interesting read for both men and women about conditions in the Crimean War.
In those days, rather like the Civil War in America, one could ride out and watch the battle going on and come back home for tea.
A most interesting read for both men and women about conditions in the Crimean War.
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'Mrs Duberley's War' is a compilation of entries in her journal and letters to friends and family describing almost daily events that she witnessed, having accompanied her husband, the paymaster of the 8th Hussars, to the Crimea and remaining with him until after the fall of Sebastopol. I bought this book to learn more about the war, having read a review of the book in 'The War Correspondent', the Journal of the Crimean War Research Association. Although Mrs Duberley's journal has been available in print since 1855, this book, compiled and edited by Christine Kelly, contains the author's well-researched and highly-informative introductions, background explanations, notes, and brief biographies of key individuals. The book is very easy to read and gives a fascinating insight to what it was really like to live through this dreadful war.
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A fascinating diary about the exploits of an officer's wife during the Crimean War, the only wife to be in the Crimea.
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