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Christine Kelly 
Mrs Duberly’s War 
Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6

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Mrs Duberly’s journal is one of the most vivid eye-witness accounts we have of the Crimean War. Fanny Duberly, then aged 25, accompanied her husband to the Crimea in 1854, and remained there until the end of the fighting, the only officer’s wife to remain throughout the entire campaign. She survived the severe winter of 1854-55, witnessed the battle of Balaklava and the charge of the Light Brigade, and rode through the ruins of Sebastopol. Spirited and courageous, she was known by sight to British and French soldiers across the battlefields, regarded often with enthusiasm and sometimes with disapproval. Witty and beautiful, she enjoyed flirtatious friendships with many of the most important men of the campaign. Her Journal kept during the Russian War was published in 1855 and caused a sensation. Although widely praised as the ‘new heroine for the Crimea’, Fanny was also censured, ridiculed, and even parodied in Punch. She had stepped into a man’s world, and written about it in a way that seemed to some at the front an invasion of privacy and to others at home an abandonment of gentility. A best-seller at the time, the Journal was not reprinted after its second edition of 1856, and this is the firstedition since that time.
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Language English ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9780191559686 ● Editor Christine Kelly ● Publisher OUP Oxford ● Published 2008 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2274176 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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