Charles Burney

In August 1793 Augusta married Alexandre de Foville, a French émigré, in spite of difficulties caused by the difference of religion and lack of parental consent, without which the groom was not entitled to marry...

NRS opens her story with Jane Fairfax as a little orphan growing up in the family of Colonel and Mrs Campbell, whose naughty daughter Euphrasia is a likable foil to her throughout. She ends it...

Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds , Arthur Murphy , Edmund Burke , Oliver Goldsmith , Charles Burney , and David Garrick . Later came the young Frances Burney , who became a...

Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke in Bristol the previous September...

In 1767 Eliza Allen married again. Her second husband was the widowed, rising musician Charles Burney .

She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in...

Cornelia corresponded regularly with Violet for four years (until her death), encouraging the latter's interests in European, especially Italian, literature and music, as well as the development of Violet's own work. Cornelia gave Violet a...

In this text VL attempts to judge and recreate elements of artistic and social climates: the growth and decline of the Academy of Arcadia , public performances of opera and commedia del'arte, and, in her...

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...

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)

SHB lived in apartments at the Royal Hospital , Chelsea, where her father had been appointed organist.

SHB was again devoting herself to the care of her elderly father , who had had a stroke and was living as an invalid.

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...

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...

Charles Burney , too, slighted his youngest daughter's work in comparison with the elder's.Jane Austen later noted that Clarentine seemed good on the first reading, not so good on the second, and unnatural...