Athenæum. J. Lection.
264 (1832): 737
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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 |
Textual Features | Vernon Lee | 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... |
Textual Features | Naomi Royde-Smith | 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... |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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) |
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 |
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 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | 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... |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | 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... |
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