Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Note on short titles; Introduction; 1. Frances Burney's long and extraordinary life: 1752–1840; 2. The King, the court and 'madness': 1788–9; 3. Aftermath: 1789–91; 4. An inoculation for smallpox: 1797; 5. 'A mastectomy': 1811; 6. Fighting for life: 'the last illness and death of General D'Arblay': 1818; 7. 'Between hope, trust and truth'; 8. Across the centuries; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Promotional Information

Provides the first dedicated study of Frances Burney's medical writings which are now viewed as foundational to modern illness narratives.

About the Author

John Wiltshire is Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Victoria. He specialises in later eighteenth-century literature and is the author of among other books Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient (Cambridge, 1991), Jane Austen and the Body: The Picture of Health (Cambridge, 1992) and The Hidden Jane Austen (Cambridge, 2014).