Charles Burney

Standard Name: Burney, Charles,, the elder
Used Form: Doctor Burney

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Frances Brooke
As a result of her friendship with the musicologist Charles Burney (1726-1814), FB became a friend of his daughter Frances as well.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press.
135
Frances Burney liked Brooke, but was worried at her close friendship with...
Literary responses Sarah Harriet Burney
Charles Burney , too, slighted his youngest daughter's work in comparison with the elder's.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press.
lxii
Jane Austen later noted that Clarentine seemed good on the first reading, not so good on the second, and unnatural...
Residence Frances Burney
Charles Burney moved his family, including his daughter Fanny , from King's Lynn to London.
Burney, Frances. “Introduction and front matter”. Journals and Letters, edited by Peter Sabor and Lars E. Troide, Penguin, p. vii - xxviii.
ix
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon.
10
Dedications Frances Burney
FB published her last novel, The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties, with a lengthy dedication to her father .
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press.
317
Textual Production Frances Burney
FB published her last work, the lovingly laboured and highly deferential Memoirs of Doctor Burney.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
264 (1832): 737
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press.
376-8
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Burney
FB 's father, the musicologist and music teacher Charles Burney , was a man of great charm and ability who rose to eminence by his own efforts. He numbered among his friends members of the...
Employer Frances Burney
Before becoming an author herself, FB worked as amanuensis or copyist to her father , regularly transcribing his work to go to the printer.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon.
47-8
Textual Features Frances Burney
Evelina opens with an ode to Charles Burney (unnamed) as Author of my Being, which sounds like an apology for having written.
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press.
37
The preface acknowledges the formative influence of Richardson (as well as Henry Fielding
Reception Frances Burney
The result was The Witlings. A Comedy by a Sister of the Order. But the play's first, private readership rejected it. Charles Burney , and even more Samuel Crisp (who had suffered the experience...
Residence Sarah Harriet Burney
SHB lived in apartments at the Royal Hospital , Chelsea, where her father had been appointed organist.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press.
xxxiv
Occupation Sarah Harriet Burney
SHB was again devoting herself to the care of her elderly father , who had had a stroke and was living as an invalid.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press.
xlii
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Harriet Burney
SHB 's mother, formerly Elizabeth Allen , a widow with three children when she married Charles Burney , was disliked and resented not only by her step-children but apparently by her own children as well...
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Harriet Burney
Much has been written on Charles Burney 's relations with his children. He was an intensely caring, controlling, and emotionally demanding father. His children loved him, but with ambivalence. His furtherance of Frances Burney's career...
Publishing Martha Hale
Subscribers included the Prince of Wales and other royalty, Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach , Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , her daughter the Countess of Carlisle , Charles Burney , Warren Hastings , Miss De Camp (later Maria Theresa Kemble)
Friends, Associates Samuel Johnson
Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period...

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