Frances Isabella Duberly

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Standard Name: Duberly, Frances Isabella
Birth Name: Frances Isabella Locke
Nickname: Fanny
Pseudonym: One who has shared the fortunes of War
FID was a letter-writer and diarist of considerable talent, who reached print in both these forms when she was the only officer's wife to remain with the British army throughout the Crimean war. Her letters in their full form vividly narrate her personal experiences and frustrations; those which were carried anonymously by newspapers blew the whistle on incompetence and criminal negligence in military high places. Her published journal from the Crimea and to a lesser extent her later journal from India (which rank both as travel writing and as military history) combine these themes with those of the horrors of war and the persistence through it all of the human spirit: sometimes comic, occasionally proto-feminist, often satirical.

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Anne Barker
George Barker served in the army with dash and distinction. He was twice promoted during periods of military action: he became a colonel during the Crimean War, and a brigadier-general as well as a Knight...
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan
MBCL 's later descendants in the male line did not do her much credit. Her grandson the third Earl was a particularly harsh and cruel landlord during the Great Famine in Ireland. He commanded the...
Literary responses Charlotte Yonge
It was praised in the Athenæum, and was the last book read by Lord Raglan before his death in the Crimea the year after its publication.
Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House, 1996.
1
Frances Isabella Duberly , who read it...
Literary responses Julia Kavanagh
But Frances Isabella Duberly , spending a hot and disease-ridden summer with the British army in the Crimea and desperate for something clever
Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press, 2007.
208
to read, found that this novel was as good as a...
Textual Features Ménie Muriel Dowie
The book opens with a lighthearted account of gardens in Ermyngard's neighbourhood, introducing the characters of the Admiral and his wife, the Countess, for whom Ermyngard works. If you heard us gathered round the tea-table...

Timeline

September 1854: The British landed in Crimea, unopposed by...

National or international item

September 1854

The British landed in Crimea, unopposed by the Russians they had come to make war with. They went on to lay siege to Sebastopol that October and to win important victories at Balaklava (25...

17 October 1854: This was the day, according to Frances Isabella...

National or international item

17 October 1854

This was the day, according to Frances Isabella Duberly , that after weeks of preparation culminating in continuous firing, the siege of Sebastopol (in the Crimean war) began in earnest.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
207, 209
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
69
Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press, 2007.
85, 88

30 March 1856: The Treaty of Paris was signed by Austria,...

National or international item

30 March 1856

The Treaty of Paris was signed by Austria, Britain, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey, bringing an end to the Crimean War.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
207, 210-14
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
69
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
202-3
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.
xlii

Texts

Duberly, Frances Isabella. Campaigning Experiences in Rajpootana and Central India, during the Suppression of the Mutiny, 1857-1858. Smith, Elder, 1859.
Duberly, Frances Isabella. Campaigning Experiences in Rajpootana and Central India, during the Suppression of the Mutiny, 1857-1858. Adamant Media Corporation, 2002.
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.
Duberly, Frances Isabella. Journal Kept during the Russian War: from the departure of the army from England in April 1854 to the fall of Sebastopol. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855.
Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press, 2007.