Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon.
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Charles Burney
Standard Name: Burney, Charles,, the elder
Used Form: Doctor Burney
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
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