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death | Frances Burney | She had outlived her husband, her son, and all her siblings but Sarah Harriet
, to whom she left an annuity of two hundred pounds a year. She was buried at Wolcot Church in Bath... |
Education | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
was said to have learned to read by the time she was three. In January 1806 she got through fifty-five volumes, including books by Sarah Harriet Burney
, Maria Edgeworth
, Elizabeth Hamilton
,... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Meeke | This marriage gave little Elizabeth Allen four stepsisters: Esther
, Frances
, Susan
, and Charlotte Ann Burney
. She later acquired a half-sister, Sarah Harriet Burney
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Burney | Youngest of the family was FB
's fellow-novelist Sarah Harriet Burney
, the daughter of the second marriage, who also worked as a governess. |
Friends, Associates | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | LMH
's friends included Margaret Mitchell
, Frances Reynolds
, Cornelia Knight
, Anna Williams
(from whom she received particular kindness), and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Hutton | CH
's friends included novelists Sarah Harriet Burney
and Robert Bage
, publisher Sir Richard Phillips
, Elizabeth Arnold
(whom she calls sister of Catharine Macaulay
, but who was actually the sister of Macaulay's... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | CB
's dealings with Blackwood's led to a positive working relationship with editor John Wilson
. She also maintained a long correspondence with Anna Eliza Bray
and (in later years) a shorter one with poet... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | Talk about the conflict at Greta Hall circulated through England's literary circles. Henry Crabb Robinson
, Sarah Burney
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, and Mary Russell Mitford
were all privy to this gossip. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998. 4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the... |
Leisure and Society | Lady Eleanor Butler | The Ladies and the rural ideal they embodied became famous in literary circles, an object of pilgrimage alike to the lesbian Anne Lister
and to more conventional figures like William Wordsworth
and the Irish poet... |
Literary responses | Hester Lynch Piozzi | This work was much noticed, making HLP
one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers of 1789-90. Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013. |
Literary responses | Frances Burney | Burney's family were delighted. Her young half-sister Sarah Harriet
(who was about to publish her own first novel) sent her a perfect rhapsody of praise. Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Clark, Lorna J.Editor , University of Georgia Press, 1997. 17-18 |
Literary responses | Anna Maria Porter | Burney
offered a detailed informal critique. She found the novel full of the most touching passages, but stated that, as a whole, it drags. Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Clark, Lorna J.Editor , University of Georgia Press, 1997. 230 |
Literary responses | Mary Charlton | Sarah Harriet Burney
was clearly more impressed by what she regarded as a popular, even a trashy novel, than she was willing to admit. She called it (in implicit contrast with Walter Scott
) a... |
Literary responses | Maria Edgeworth | But Sarah Harriet Burney
wrote: Nobody more thoroughly venerates the admirable author than I do—And in this last work, she has really excelled herself. Every young man ought to study it . . .... |