Book contents
- Frances Burney and the Doctors
- Frances Burney and the Doctors
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Short Titles
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Frances Burney’s Long and Extraordinary Life: 1752–1840
- Chapter 2 The King, the Court, and ‘Madness’: 1788–1789
- Chapter 3 Aftermath: 1789–1791
- Chapter 4 An Inoculation for Smallpox: 1797
- Chapter 5 A Mastectomy: 1811
- Chapter 6 Fighting for Life
- Chapter 7 Between Hope, Trust, and Truth: 1965–2015
- Chapter 8 Patienthood across Two Centuries
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 6 - Fighting for Life
The Last Illness and Death of General d’Arblay: 1818
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 October 2019
- Frances Burney and the Doctors
- Frances Burney and the Doctors
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Short Titles
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Frances Burney’s Long and Extraordinary Life: 1752–1840
- Chapter 2 The King, the Court, and ‘Madness’: 1788–1789
- Chapter 3 Aftermath: 1789–1791
- Chapter 4 An Inoculation for Smallpox: 1797
- Chapter 5 A Mastectomy: 1811
- Chapter 6 Fighting for Life
- Chapter 7 Between Hope, Trust, and Truth: 1965–2015
- Chapter 8 Patienthood across Two Centuries
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Like General Alexandre d’Arblay, Colonel Sir William De Lancey was an aristocratic career soldier, and both were called to take part in the last campaign against Napoleon after his escape from Elba on 1 March 1815. Magdalene De Lancey had been married for less than two months when her husband was ordered to join the Duke of Wellington in preparation for the battle that came to be known as Waterloo. The De Lanceys travelled to Brussels, where they arrived early in June 1815. About a fortnight later, anticipating that the fighting would start very soon, De Lancey arranged for Magdalene to go to Antwerp, about twenty-five miles away, where she would be safe. There, after a day, she received news that her husband had been killed, then that he had survived. In her memoir A Week at Waterloo, she recounts the very taxing time that followed, culminating in her nursing her husband during the last days of his life.
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- Frances Burney and the DoctorsPatient Narratives Then and Now, pp. 129 - 153Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019