Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Clark, Lorna J.Editor , University of Georgia Press, 1997.
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death | Frances Burney | She had outlived her husband, her son, and all her siblings but Sarah Harriet
, to whom she left an annuity of two hundred pounds a year. She was buried at Wolcot Church in Bath... |
Education | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
was said to have learned to read by the time she was three. In January 1806 she got through fifty-five volumes, including books by Sarah Harriet Burney
, Maria Edgeworth
, Elizabeth Hamilton
,... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Meeke | This marriage gave little Elizabeth Allen four stepsisters: Esther
, Frances
, Susan
, and Charlotte Ann Burney
. She later acquired a half-sister, Sarah Harriet Burney
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Burney | Youngest of the family was FB
's fellow-novelist Sarah Harriet Burney
, the daughter of the second marriage, who also worked as a governess. |
Friends, Associates | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | LMH
's friends included Margaret Mitchell
, Frances Reynolds
, Cornelia Knight
, Anna Williams
(from whom she received particular kindness), and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Hutton | CH
's friends included novelists Sarah Harriet Burney
and Robert Bage
, publisher Sir Richard Phillips
, Elizabeth Arnold
(whom she calls sister of Catharine Macaulay
, but who was actually the sister of Macaulay's... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | CB
's dealings with Blackwood's led to a positive working relationship with editor John Wilson
. She also maintained a long correspondence with Anna Eliza Bray
and (in later years) a shorter one with poet... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | Talk about the conflict at Greta Hall circulated through England's literary circles. Henry Crabb Robinson
, Sarah Burney
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, and Mary Russell Mitford
were all privy to this gossip. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998. 4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the... |
Leisure and Society | Lady Eleanor Butler | The Ladies and the rural ideal they embodied became famous in literary circles, an object of pilgrimage alike to the lesbian Anne Lister
and to more conventional figures like William Wordsworth
and the Irish poet... |
Literary responses | Maria Edgeworth | But Sarah Harriet Burney
wrote: Nobody more thoroughly venerates the admirable author than I do—And in this last work, she has really excelled herself. Every young man ought to study it . . .... |
Literary responses | Susan Ferrier | This novel too was a success, if not quite so resoundingly as Marriage (to whose reputation more than one reviewer referred). Cullinan, Mary. Susan Ferrier. Twayne, 1984. 68-9 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Griffith | The original letters were immensely popular with readers (among others Sarah Harriet Burney
was a devotee); their authors became famous under their pseudonyms. Not everyone agreed in admiring them, however. Lady Bradshaigh
remarked to Samuel Richardson |
Literary responses | Jane Austen | But of readers whose responses survive, most were delighted. These included Sarah Harriet Burney
—who, however, thought (apparently along with plenty of others) that Catherine Ann Dorset
, sister of Charlotte Smith
, might be... |
Literary responses | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | This novel was reviewed in the same listing as Sense and Sensibility, by a Lady. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 3d ser. 24 (1811): 336 |