Macdonald, Simon. “Identifying Mrs Meeke: Another Burney Family Novelist”. Review of English Studies, Oxford University Press.
Charles Burney
Standard Name: Burney, Charles,, the elder
Used Form: Doctor Burney
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Meeke | In 1767 Eliza Allen married again. Her second husband was the widowed, rising musician Charles Burney
. |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Smith | 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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