Sarah Harriet Burney

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Standard Name: Burney, Sarah Harriet
Birth Name: Sarah Harriotte Burney
Nickname: Sally
Used Form: the Author of Clarentine
SHB was an early nineteenth-century novelist and letter-writer (though she began to publish before the end of the eighteenth century). Her achievements in both these genres have been obscured by those of her sister Frances. She wrote from financial necessity—I must scribble, or I cannot live
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press.
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—but her later works especially rank high for quality and interest.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Anna Maria Bennett
Several novels were attributed to AMB which are probably not hers. Titles that have been ascribed to her include Henry Bennett et Julie Johnson, 1794 (a French translation, bearing her name, of John Raithby
Textual Features Anna Maria Porter
This is set during the Thirty Years War. As Sarah Harriet Burney remarked, the period at which she makes her people act and talk, is during the Protestant War in Germany; she carries you...
Reception Elizabeth Hervey
The publisher, Henry Colburn , sent a pretty bound copy to Sarah Harriet Burney . She (unfortunately for the literary historian, since her opinion would be worth having) apparently thanked him for it before she...
Reception Germaine de Staël
Sarah Harriet Burney , like her famous sister, was troubled at GS 's unconventionality. She wrote that she yawned over De l'Allemagneand yet, here and there, was electrified by a flash of sublimity. Do...
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 . . ....
Literary responses Susan Ferrier
This novel too was a success, if not quite so resoundingly as Marriage (to whose reputation more than one reviewer referred).
Cullinan, Mary. Susan Ferrier. Twayne.
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The author's sister Helen (Mrs Kinloch ), an early reader, approached it...
Literary responses Elizabeth Griffith
The original letters were immensely popular with readers (among others Sarah Harriet Burney was a devotee); their authors became famous under their pseudonyms. Not everyone agreed in admiring them, however. Lady Bradshaigh remarked to Samuel Richardson
Literary responses Jane Austen
But of readers whose responses survive, most were delighted. These included Sarah Harriet Burney —who, however, thought (apparently along with plenty of others) that Catherine Ann Dorset , sister of Charlotte Smith , might be...
Literary responses Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
This novel was reviewed in the same listing as Sense and Sensibility, by a Lady.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
3d ser. 24 (1811): 336
Readers (like Sarah Harriet Burney ) generally and justifiably identified the heroine with...
Literary responses Jane Austen
JA 's early admirers among her fellow women writers constituted a small, select band. They included Sarah Harriet Burney , Anne Grant , Mary Ann Kelty , Maria Callcott , Maria Jane Jewsbury , Harriet Martineau
Literary responses Catherine Hutton
The Miser Married was admired by Sarah Harriet Burney (who struck up acquaintance with Hutton on the strength of it) as a clever amusing little book.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press.
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It was the only one of her works...
Literary responses Hannah More
Sarah Harriet Burney had high praise for it. The chapter on the smaller-scale faults and virtues, she said, merits to be written in letters of gold.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press.
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Around the same time Harriet Martineau (in her...
Literary responses Mary Brunton
Brunton's English publisher, Longman , registered in the year of publication that the book was in great demand and very much admired on the whole, though some complain of the later part of the work...
Literary responses Alicia Tyndal Palmer
Sarah Harriet Burney 's first impression of this work was favourable: it promises facility of style, & I think I shall like it.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press.
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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.
Again she fell foul of critics: this time for her colloquial (sometimes ungrammatical) style and deliberately informal manner. A...

Timeline

1 February 1814: The first number appeared of the New Monthly...

Writing climate item

1 February 1814

The first number appeared of the New Monthly Magazine: published initially by Henry Colburn , it was said to be the earliest monthly to incorporate a miscellany of articles.

Texts

Burney, Sarah Harriet. Clarentine. G. C. and J. Robinson, 1796.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. Geraldine Fauconberg. G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, 1808.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. Tales of Fancy. Henry Colburn, 1816.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Romance of Private Life. Henry Colburn, 1839.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. Traits of Nature. Henry Colburn, 1812.