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

 
From the publishers
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 first edition since that time. 
 
Contents
List of Maps and Illustrations
Editor's Introduction
Note on the Text
Editor's Note and Author's Preface, 1855
1. The Voyage (April-May 1854)
2. Embarkation and Encampment at Varna (June-August 1854)
3. The Expedition to the Crimea (September-October 1854)
4. Balaklava (October-November 1854)
5. Balaklava (December 1854-March 1855)
6. The Camp (March-July 1855)
7. The Fall of Sebastopol (July-September 1855)
Notes and Commentary
Biographical Notes
Appendix 1: How the War Began
Appendix 2: The Battle of Balaklava
Further Reading
Index  

About the author
Editor Christine Kelly is a journalist with the British newspaper Sunday Times