The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney

• The first modern, scholarly edition of Frances Burney's Court Journals
• Restores material deleted by Burney and her literary executrix
• Contains an accurate, unabridged text with extensive annotations
• Detailed contextual and historical introductions

Readership: Students and scholars of eighteenth-century literature and history

Edited by Peter Sabor, Canada Research Chair in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Professor of English, McGill University, Montreal

Peter Sabor is Professor in the Department of English at McGill University, where he also holds the Canada Research Chair in Eighteenth-Century Studies and is Director of the Burney Centre. He is a past president of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has edited The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney and co-edited her Complete Plays and two of her novels, Cecilia and The Wanderer, as well as a selection of her Journals and Letters. He is the general editor of Burney's Court Journals and Letters (OUP) and the co-general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson. His other publications include (with Thomas Keymer) Pamela in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland and the Juvenilia volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen.

"[These volumes] constitute something of a publishing landmark." - J.W.M. Thompson, Standpoint

"splendidly edited" - Claudia L. Johnson, Times Literary Supplement

"extraordinary for many reasons" - John Wiltshire, Review of English Studies

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
History of the Manuscripts and Earlier Editions
The Present Edition
Short Titles and Abbreviations
Burney Genealogy
The Burney Family: Biographical Notes
Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney from 17 July to 31 December 1786
Index