Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Frances Burney
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Standard Name: Burney, Frances
Birth Name: Frances Burney
Nickname: Fanny
Nickname: The Old Lady
Married Name: Frances D'Arblay
Indexed Name: Madame D'Arblay
Pseudonym: A Sister of the Order
Used Form: the author of Evelina
Used Form: the author of Evelina and Cecilia
Used Form: the author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla
FB
, renowned as a novelist in her youth and middle age, outlived her high reputation; her fourth and last novel (published in 1814) was her least well received. Her diaries and letters, posthumously published, were greeted with renewed acclaim. During the late twentieth century the re-awakening of interest in her fiction and the rediscovery of her plays revealed her as a woman of letters to be reckoned with. Today her reputation in the academic world stands high, and productions of her plays are no longer isolated events.
A TLS review by R. W. Chapman
sounded distinctly anti-feminist. He wrote that by employing heroic remedies, the indomitable editor has cut away all the elaborate openings and studied conclusions, masses of domestic detail, nine-tenths...
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Sarah Harriet Burney
Colburn originally wanted to publish two volumes of tales together; then he agreed to publish The Shipwreck immediately if a second volume could be ready soon after Christmas 1815. He had advertised volume one on...
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Cassandra, Lady Hawke
Lady Saye and Sele
told Burney
that one of the unpublished novels by her sister is in letters, like yours. . . it's called the 'Mausoleum of Julia'!
Burney, Frances. Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay. Editors Barrett, Charlotte and Austin Dobson, Macmillan.
Of about a dozen other books in the series, this work was the only one written by a woman about a woman writer. Royds situates Barrett Browning within a strong tradition of women writers including...
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Elizabeth Meeke
EM
published, with her name, "There is a Secret, Find It Out!", a novel which quotes Griffith (probably Elizabeth Griffith
) on its title-page and borrows a character name from her stepsister Frances
's Evelina.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 281
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Anna Maria Bennett
This was again anonymous; some thought it by Frances Burney
. AMB
dedicated it to another of George III
's children, Prince William Henry
(a naval officer who would be in a position to offer...
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Hannah More
Like Frances Burney
's Brief Reflections Relative to the Emigrant French Clergy, this was written for the benefit of Frances Anne Crewe
's fund for relief of French clerical refugees. More expressed the hope...
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, p. vii - viii; various pages.
Probably the last full-length fiction to appear by EM
was published in her name: What Shall Be, Shall Be. A Novel; again a character name was borrowed from Frances Burney
.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 561
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
The novel appeared in Dublin, before the London edition of the same year. Owenson dated her preface 2 November 1802. Her payment was said to consist of four free copies.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 176
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
ATG
later remembered that she was writing poetry at seven or eight. She also planned large literary projects
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
1: 46
including a prequel to Homer
's Iliad. Like Frances Burney
, she tried to...
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Felicia Hemans
Gary Kelly
speculates that Felicia Browne may have been the translator (signing F. B.) of Italian patriot and political exile Ugo Foscolo
's autobiographical novel Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis in 1812.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, pp. 12 - 89; various pages.
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A...
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Jan Morris
More than a decade later, in 1978, JM
followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less...
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Hester Mulso Chapone
HMC
's surviving letters span the years both before and after her marriage. Apart from her best-known letters, exchanged with Richardson
himself, Richardson's circle, and other Bluestockings of the original generation, she corresponded with Frances Burney
Timeline
May 1992: The Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British...
Parker, Pamela Corpron. “A Conference of Our Own: on the 20th Anniversary of the BWWA”. The Female Spectator, Vol.
16
, No. 1, p. 6.
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November 2003: A painting by John Hoppner entitled Portrait...
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November 2003
A painting by John Hoppner
entitled Portrait of a Lady as Evelina (Frances Burney
's earliest heroine, born in January 1778) sold at Sotheby
's to an unnamed private buyer for £173,600.
6 May 2009: The antiquarian book collection of the late...
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6 May 2009
The antiquarian book collection of the late Paula Fentress Peyraud
(the largest in private hands), auctioned in New York, fetched more than $1.5 million US. Books by women between 1760 and 1830 predominated.
