Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Selina Marx
Standard Name: Marx, Selina
Birth Name: Selina Locke
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Isabella Duberly | Left an orphan at an early age, Frances Isabella owed a great deal to the care her eldest sister, Selina Marx
. Selina, although she was early married, widowed, and re-married, remained an important person... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Isabella Duberly | The full title was Journal Kept during the Russian War—from the departure of the army from England in April 1854, to the fall of Sebastopol. FID
gave a free hand in editing to her... |
| politics | Frances Isabella Duberly | Her war experience played havoc with FID
's gender attitudes. Amid disease, death, cruelty, and official complacency, she wrote in a letter that she had become too hard to cry for anyone but her horse:... |
| Publishing | Frances Isabella Duberly | Excerpts from FID
's war correspondence (letters from Crimea to her sister
) appeared anonymously in the Morning Advertiser. She had to stifle laughter when Lord Cardigan
, unsuspecting, read her own words aloud to her. |
| Publishing | Frances Isabella Duberly | FID
, who had experienced the loss en route of many letters sent home to England from the Crimea, sent her sister Selina
the greater part of her war journal, for safety, in the... |
| Textual Production | Frances Isabella Duberly | FID
sent her sister
a letter designed to reveal the utter neglect & mismanagement Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press, 2007. 111 Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press, 2007. 109-11 |
| Textual Production | Frances Isabella Duberly | During her time in CrimeaFID
kept a diary (whose manuscript does not survive) and sent regular letters home to her sister Selina
(now British Library
Additional Manuscripts 47218). She told Selina that writing to... |
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