The journals and letters of novelist Frances Burney (1752-1840) have attracted increasing attention
on the surge of revisionist approaches to English literary canon and feminism-driven rediscovery of
the somewhat forgotten female authors of the past epochs. My intention is to demonstrate that Burney's
journals and letters covering the periods before, during and after which she stayed at the royal
court of King George III and Queen Charlotte (1786-1791) as Second Keeper of the Robes to the
latter, provide ample illustration of the writer's mental isolation while seemingly finding herself in an
environment particularly conducive to sociability.
