ABSTRACT
The letters and journal letters of Susan Burney, the third daughter of the music historian Dr Charles Burney and the younger sister of the novelist Fanny Burney, constitute one of the largest and most significant collections of writings by an educated English woman of the late eighteenth century. They span the period from the summer of 1779, when Susan was an unmarried woman of 24 still living in the family home in London, to her untimely death in early January 1800. In between she married, had three children, lived for many years in Mickleham, Surrey, and in 1796 moved with her husband to rural Ireland, from where she was returning to England at the time of her death.
