FANNY BURNEY & The Regency: Part Two with Sylvia Sagona

This lecture will continue to follow Fanny Burney’s five years at the court of George III as they are now revealed in her recently published diaries. The court was a place of gossip and intrigue, but also of rigid propriety. How Burney coped and how she eventually escaped from her imprisonment there is a fascinating story.

Sylvia Sagona is an internationally recognised specialist on 19th century French society. She retired from the French Department at the University of Melbourne to work on historical documentaries for French and Australian television and is currently researching a book on Parisian women in the 19th century and a French documentary on the history of the restaurant in Paris.

George III and Queen Charlotte in Kew Gardens