McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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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