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.
SB
greatly admired Frances Burney
, who was a family connection by marriage—an unfortunate connection, in fact, since Molesworth Phillips
, who married Frances's closest sister, Susan
, and proved a cruel husband, was SB
Family and Intimate relationships
Hester Lynch Piozzi
Gabriel Piozzi
came into Hester Thrale's life as music teacher of her eldest daughter. Two days before Henry Thrale's death a friend told her warningly, that Man is in Love with you.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press.
198
Probably by...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sarah Harriet Burney
Her famous half-sister, the writer Frances Burney
, was almost a generation her senior.
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Hunt
Violet's aunt, Margaret
's elder sister, Annie Raine Ellis
, was the first to edit and publish, in 1889, Frances (Fanny) Burney
's Early Journals.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
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She also wrote introductions and annotations for two of Burney's novels.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Sophia Lee
Among strikingly various estimates of his acting ability, Frances Burney
was his firm admirer.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii.
xxiv
Family and Intimate relationships
Jan Struther
In autumn 1939, within a month of publishing the book that was to make her famous, JS
first met Adolf Placzek
, or Dolf, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, thirteen years her junior (son...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lady Louisa Stuart
It gave LLS
some trouble as a child that her grandmother was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
: I am sure I heartily hated her name. Whatever I wanted to learn, everybody was up in arms...
She was not taught religion until she was five, and if her mother had not thought her a forward child she would have waited another year. It was a maxim of my Mother that children...
Education
Mary Martha Sherwood
From a very early age, MMS
remembered my mother teaching me to read with my brother, in a book where [there] was a picture of a white horse feeding by star-light.
Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton.
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From the age...
Dedications
Eliza Parsons
EP
dedicated her gothic novel Anecdotes of Two Well-Known Families to the First Female Pen in England (possibly Frances Burney
), and claimed that the book was Written by a Descendant.
Her relations were horrified and repelled at her new role as a unchaste woman. Frances Burney
felt an uncontrollable repugnance when convention required that they should kiss.
Macdonald, Simon. “Identifying Mrs Meeke: Another Burney Family Novelist”. Review of English Studies, Oxford University Press.
Her sister Maria
found her penitence insincere, her...