John Wiltshire is Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Victoria. He specialises in later eighteenth-century literature and is the author of among other books Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient (Cambridge, 1991), Jane Austen and the Body: The Picture of Health (Cambridge, 1992) and The Hidden Jane Austen (Cambridge, 2014).

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• Acknowledgements; Note on short titles; Introduction; 1. Frances Burney's long and extraordinary life: 1752–1840; 2. The King, the court and 'madness': 1788–9; 3. Aftermath: 1789–91; 4. An inoculation for smallpox: 1797; 5. 'A mastectomy': 1811; 6. Fighting for life: 'the last illness and death of General D'Arblay': 1818; 7. 'Between hope, trust and truth'; 8. Across the centuries; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

John Wiltshire is Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Victoria. He specialises in later eighteenth-century literature and is the author of among other books Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient (Cambridge, 1991), Jane Austen and the Body: The Picture of Health (Cambridge, 1992) and The Hidden Jane Austen (Cambridge, 2014).

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• Acknowledgements; Note on short titles; Introduction; 1. Frances Burney's long and extraordinary life: 1752–1840; 2. The King, the court and 'madness': 1788–9; 3. Aftermath: 1789–91; 4. An inoculation for smallpox: 1797; 5. 'A mastectomy': 1811; 6. Fighting for life: 'the last illness and death of General D'Arblay': 1818; 7. 'Between hope, trust and truth'; 8. Across the centuries; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

John Wiltshire is Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Victoria. He specialises in later eighteenth-century literature and is the author of among other books Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient (Cambridge, 1991), Jane Austen and the Body: The Picture of Health (Cambridge, 1992) and The Hidden Jane Austen (Cambridge, 2014).

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• Acknowledgements; Note on short titles; Introduction; 1. Frances Burney's long and extraordinary life: 1752–1840; 2. The King, the court and 'madness': 1788–9; 3. Aftermath: 1789–91; 4. An inoculation for smallpox: 1797; 5. 'A mastectomy': 1811; 6. Fighting for life: 'the last illness and death of General D'Arblay': 1818; 7. 'Between hope, trust and truth'; 8. Across the centuries; Notes; Bibliography; Index.