📖 Burney, later Madame d'Arblay, (1752-1840) was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright who also served as "Keeper of the Robes" to Queen Charlotte. This selection from her diaries gives an insight into life at court and in the literary and social circles of her day. Edited by L B Seeley, MA, sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and author of 'Horace Walpole and His World'. Reprinted from the new edition of 1895.