Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press.
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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. Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press. 80 and n5 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Isabella Duberly | Despite Francis Marx's editing, the printed book pulls few punches. In Lord Cardigan
's infamous sore-back reconnaissance, an arbitrary forced march of excessively-loaded men and horses which disabled many of each, she diagnoses much... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Isabella Duberly | The letters to Selina, often written over several days, tend to range widely as to topic. 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. xxxii |
Travel | Frances Isabella Duberly | At the end of the month they were off again to encamp at Varna, after Lord Lucan
had forbidden FID
to accompany the regiment and Lord Raglan
had countermanded his order, saying he would... |
Travel | Frances Isabella Duberly | She was the only officer's wife to go through the whole campaign in proximity to her husband, though plenty of others visited during summer 1855. Months before that, she was annoyed when the United Services... |
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