The Journals and Letters of Susan Burney: Music and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century England

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Contents: General introduction
Biographical introduction
Textual introduction. The Journals and Letters of Susan Burney, 1779-1799: Streatham and Chessington, September 1779
London, October 1779-June 1780
Chessington, October 1780
Chessington, April 1783
Norbury Park, June 1784
Boulogne, February 1785
Mickleham, June 1786-March 1787
Windsor, April 1787
Mickleham and London, May 1787-July 1794
London, November 1795-September 1796
The journey to Ireland, October 1796
Dublin and Belcotton, October 1796-December 1799
Parkgate, December 1799
Bibliography
Index.

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Susan Burney (1755-1800) was the third daughter of the music historian Charles Burney and the younger sister of the novelist Frances (Fanny) Burney. She grew up in London, where she was able to observe at close quarters the musical life of the capital and to meet the many musicians, men of letters, and artists who visited the family home. After her marriage in 1782 to Molesworth Phillips, a Royal Marines officer who served with Captain Cook on his last voyage, she lived in Surrey and later in rural Ireland. Burney was a knowledgeable enthusiast for music, and particularly for opera, with discriminating tastes and the ability to capture vividly musical life and the personalities involved in it. Her extensive journals and letters, a selection from which is presented here, provide a striking portrait of social, domestic and cultural life in London, the Home Counties and in Ireland in the late eighteenth century. They are of the greatest importance and interest to music and theatre historians, and also contain much that will be of significance and interest for Burney scholars, social historians of England and Ireland, women's historians and historians of the family.

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