Duberly, Frances Isabella. “Editor’s Introduction”. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6, edited by Christine Kelly, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. xi - xlviii.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Frances Isabella Duberly
The title-page quotes James Beattie
and Shakespeare
. For dedication, five stanzas from Longfellow
addressed to absent friends invoke again members of the Eighth Hussars
. FID
's preface declares her intention of reporting the...
Travel
Frances Isabella Duberly
The month after Britain and France declared war on Russia (opening the first Crimean War) FID
left London with her husband
and his regiment (the Eighth Hussars
) heading for Plymouth and thence for Constantinople...
Travel
Frances Isabella Duberly
FID
embarked in the Jason from the war encampment at Sebastopol, Crimea, to sail a week later with the regiment
for winter quarters at Ismid (now Izmit) in Asian Turkey, at the head of...
Travel
Frances Isabella Duberly
The Eighth Hussars
embarked from Izmit in Turkey, leaving their Crimean War service for England, where they landed at Portsmouth three weeks later. FID
was still with them.
Duberly, Frances Isabella. “Editor’s Introduction”. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6, edited by Christine Kelly, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. xi - xlviii.