Another brother-in-law, Selina's husband Francis Marx
, was a journalist and author, who was later helpful in getting Fanny's journal published.
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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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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...
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Francis Marx
toned down a good deal of her criticism of military incompetence in high places, whose deficiencies bore hard on soldiers in the field.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
(By now an official enquiry had been mounted into Lord Raglan