Frances Burney

13 June 1752 - 06 January 1840

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.

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Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Friends, Associates	Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan	She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in...
Friends, Associates	Anna Williams	Williams enjoyed cordial relations with other members of Johnson's circle, like Elizabeth Carter (who helped with subscriptions for Williams's book when Johnson was dragging his feet) and Hester Thrale (who contributed). Carter counted her a...
Friends, Associates	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Joanna Baillie , who lived near the Barbaulds in Hampstead, was one of ALB 's greatest friends. In Barbauld's later years her friends included Samuel Rogers , Madame D'Arblay , Eliza Fletcher (who first visited...
Friends, Associates	Anna Miller	ALM's literary ambitions and her self-publicizing Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press. 192 made her respected in and around Bath but ridiculed and despised in London. Mme du Deffand found both her and her husband ennuyeux. Frances Burney called...
Friends, Associates	Helen Maria Williams	There she began to frequent Elizabeth Montagu 's bluestocking circle. She was introduced in cultural circles by Andrew Kippis , minister of the church her family attended, and soon knew William Hayley , Sarah Siddons
Friends, Associates	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Their initial friendship seems to have cooled slightly, but ALB wrote Chapone's obituary, as well as that of a Chapone brother. She also met at about the same time Elizabeth Carter , Sarah Scott ...
Friends, Associates	Martha Hale	MH 's wide circle of friends and acquaintances included leading politicians and other socially prominent figures of her day. She seems to have had personal friendships with John Moore , Archbishop of Canterbury, and his...
Friends, Associates	Mary Harcourt	MH became a friend and correspondent of Frances Burney , and also of the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry , to whom she wrote in early 1819 This letter is dated 1818 in the Memoir of...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Montagu	EM met Frances Burney at Hester Thrale 's house, Streatham Park, near London. Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon. 106-7
Friends, Associates	Harriet Lee	HL , like her sister, was personally friendly with many other writers of her day: Jane and Anna Maria Porter , Ann Radcliffe (even though the latter probably did not, as often reported, attend the...
Friends, Associates	Germaine de Staël	One of her associates in her English visit was the future husband of Frances Burney . Burney thought her a woman of the first abilities, very much in the style of Mrs Thrale but with...
Friends, Associates	Lady Anne Barnard	LAB 's later social life in London is mentioned in the diary of Frances Burney . Graham, Henry Grey. Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century. Adam and Charles Black. 345 Sir Walter Scott renewed his early acquaintance with her after fifty years.
Friends, Associates	Cassandra, Lady Hawke	The young and very private Frances Burney , at an entertainment where the singer Pacchierotti was to perform, had an encounter with this terrible set Burney, Frances. Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay. Editors Barrett, Charlotte and Austin Dobson, Macmillan. 2: 66 —Cassandra, Lady Hawke , and her relations.
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Montagu	The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter (the most intellectually...
Friends, Associates	Sophia Lee	Their school, together with their literary careers, brought SL and her sisters a wide circle of friends and contacts, including Jane and Anna Maria Porter . The novelist Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins describes Sophia as surrounded...

Timeline

May 1992

The Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Association held its first annual conference. Thereafter the conference was held at a different American location each year.

Parker, Pamela Corpron. “A Conference of Our Own: on the 20th Anniversary of the BWWA”. The Female Spectator, Vol.

, No. 1, p. 6.

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 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.

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