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.
Photo of the painting of Frances Burney by her cousin Edward Francisco Burney, c. 1784-5. She is turned to the viewer's left with lowered gaze, wearing a long-sleeved pale pink gown with a pink bow and a dark shawl; but the portrait is dominated by her huge hat with puffed-up crown and bow of broad ribbon. National Portrait Gallery

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Helen Craik
The novel had been advertised in April as to be published speedily.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 669
It appeared before the end of the year through the Minerva Press in three volumes, with a frontispiece and French...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Fielding
Other women novelists found this a fertile text. Critic Susan Catto suggested that the social ignorance of Lennox 's Arabella owes something to that of Ophelia. She also noted that at a ball the heroine...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Meeke
The setting is pre-revolutionary France. The novel opens with a maxim about the difficulty of unequal friendships. It proffers its story as an exception to this rule, relating the most tender affection
Meeke, Elizabeth. Count St. Blancard. Facsimile edition, Arno Press, 1977, 3 vols.
1: 3
Intertextuality and Influence Mrs E. M. Foster
Judith, the remaining MEMF novel of 1800, is attributed to the author of Rebecca, Miriam, and Fitzmorris &c. There was German translation in 1802.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 115
The incredibly complex plot follows...
Intertextuality and Influence Judith Sargent Murray
She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho , the patriotic heroism...
Leisure and Society Joanna Baillie
In the earlier 1840s, however, she was still a keen reader. She tackled the first edition of Frances Burney 's Diary and Letters out of a desire to get some insight into the literary society...
Literary responses Lady Charlotte Bury
Edward Copeland argues that this text, though designed to ride the wave of the new silver-fork novel, draws its influences from an earlier generation: Frances Burney , Susan Ferrier , and Richardson 's Sir Charles...
Literary responses Charlotte Lennox
The novel was noticed in the Critical Review, which approved it, while diagnosing too much reliance on ideas from Frances Burney .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 2 (1791): 233
Literary responses Catherine Gore
The year after these two novels appeared, a writer in The New Spirit of the Age measured CG unflatteringly against the humour of Frances Burney or the lifelike precision of Jane Austen , but credited...
Literary responses Georgiana Fullerton
Henry Fothergill Chorley , reviewing the novel for the Athenæum, found Grantley Manorhaunted by the intertextual spectre of Jane Austen 's Emma; he also drew parallels with Frances Burney 's Cecilia...
Literary responses Charlotte Lennox
CL kept copies of a number of verse tributes to her talents. She was one among the painter Richard Samuel 's The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain in 1778 (exhibited 1779).
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Concluded)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
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, No. 4, Oct. 1971, pp. 416-35.
429-31
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford, 1998.
199
It...
Literary responses Elizabeth Hervey
The Critical Reviewread this pleasing and interesting story as an imitation of Burney 's Cecilia.If there is a fault, it suggested, it was the structural fault of raising and solving one difficulty...
Literary responses Ann Radcliffe
Samuel Taylor Coleridge reviewed this novel somewhat belatedly for the Critical Review.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
81
The review in the Analytical, probably Wollstonecraft 's, offered strong endorsement. AR 's uncommon talent for gothic, it said, had...
Literary responses Elizabeth Bonhote
The Critical Review placed this novel in the middle of the first rank of fiction, calling it very interesting and pleasing
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 468
although too much like Burney 's Cecilia. Andrew Becket in the Monthly agreed.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 468
Literary responses Ellis Cornelia Knight
Dinarbas was popular during ECK 's lifetime. It warranted fairly favourable mention from Frances Burney , who wrote to a friend that if you could overlook the presumption of the idea of writing a continuation...

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