The chilling account of Burney's mastectomy is given in letter No. 595 and the French medical report, vol. VI, 596–616. The operation took place on 30 September 1811. Her letter was written from March to May 1812. The doctor's report was written on 1 October 1811.
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The chilling account of Burney's mastectomy is given in letter No. 595 and the French medical report, vol. VI, 596–616. The operation took place on 30 September 1811. Her letter was written from March to May 1812. The doctor's report was written on 1 October 1811.
2Important biographies of Burney's life include Hester CitationDavenport's Faithful Handmaid: Frances Burney at the Court of King George III, Clare CitationHarman's Frances Burney: A Biography, Janice Farrar CitationThaddeus's Frances Burney: A Literary Life, Margaret Anne CitationDoody's Frances Burney: A Life in the Works and Joyce CitationHemlow's The History of Frances Burney.
3Words like ‘deformed’ and ‘flawed’ are used as references to cultural understandings of disability and femininity and are not to be seen as a reflection of the author's own sensibilities.
4Mirzoeff and Fausto Sterling's articles appear in Jennifer CitationTerry and Jaqueline Urla's Deviant Bodies; essays by LaCom and Nussbaum are part of David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder's The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses in Disability.
5See also Ruth CitationPerry, ‘Colonizing the Breast: Sexuality and Maternity in Eighteenth Century England’.
6For instance, in post-revolutionary France, following Rousseau's dictat to mothers to breast-feed, ‘many French subjects were led to believe that a general social reform would result if mothers fed their own babies’ (Yalom, 75).