Alan Palmer

Standard Name: Palmer, Alan

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Literary responses Frances Isabella Duberly
Alan Palmer , in his Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on Duberly, remarks on her ready pen, eyes perceptive to detail, youthful self-confidence, and an incisive style softened by candid pathos.He finds her...
Literary responses Frances Isabella Duberly
FID was not surprised when this book sold less well than her previous one: she knew people in England did not care or trouble themselves about this war as they did about the Crimea.
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, p. xi - xlviii.
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Texts

Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.