1832 3vols MADAME D'ARBLAY Memoirs DOCTOR BURNEY 1st

Smartly rebound set with red leather spines and bright marbled paper covered boards.  Each volume has gilt titles and detail to the spines.

The first edition of Madame D'Arbley's important biography of her father.  Complete here in three volumes with half title pages and publisher's ads to the rear of volume III.

As homage to her father, she gathered and published, in three volumes, the Memoirs of Doctor Burney in 1832. The memoirs were written in a laudatory style, praising her father's accomplishments and character, and she cannibalized many of her own personal writings from years before in order to produce them. Always protective of her father and the family’s reputation, she deliberately destroyed evidence of facts that were painful or unflattering, and was soundly criticized by her contemporaries and later by historians for doing so.  Otherwise, she lived essentially in retirement, outliving her son, who died in 1837, and her sister Charlotte Broom, who died in 1838. Burney was visited in Bath by younger members of the Burney family, who found her a fascinating storyteller with a talent for imitating the personalities that she described. She continued to write to her family often.

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