Lady Charlotte Bury

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Standard Name: Bury, Lady Charlotte
Birth Name: Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell
Styled: Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell
Married Name: Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell
Married Name: Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury
Pseudonym: A Lady
Pseudonym: A Lady of Rank
Pseudonym: The Authoress of Flirtation
Pseudonym: The Authoress of the Disinherited and Flirtation
Pseudonym: The Author of The History of a Flirt
Nickname: Lady Frances Juliana Flummery
Used Form: the author of The Disinherited
Used Form: C. C. Bury
Used Form: C. M. B.
Used Form: Lady Charlotte S. M. Campbell
LCB had the example in her family of genteel women whose writing was an important source of income to them. Her relations had addressed some of her favourite fictional topics: marriage into the nobility from a position well below it, and re-marriage after divorce. She wrote poems as an adolescent, and published them before her first marriage. From this point in her life she was always short of money. Her first novel dates from the years of her first widowhood, and her output was highest during her second marriage. From the diary she kept while at Court, she printed non-fictional scandal memoirs on subject-matter similar to that of her seventeen or more novels—the life and scandals of fashionable society—but her own attitude, often reinforced by heavy-handed authorial comment at the ends of novels, is generally censorious as well as sentimental. She seldom offers happy endings: whether grave or trivial, the sins or mistakes of her characters most often lead them to suffering and disaster. The most scandalous and arguably the most interesting selections of her diary remain almost unknown.

Connections

Connections Sort ascending Author name Excerpt
Wealth and Poverty Alison Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn 's elder brother had sold the family estates, to pay off debts, in 1748; hence the need for Patrick to find employment. Patrick had saved the duke once before 1750, by preventing him...
Wealth and Poverty Anne Damer
John Damer had lost £20,000 at the gaming tables in a single night not long before his death—a sum to cast a shadow over his expectations of inheriting £30,000.
Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press.
366n27
In fact after John's death...
Textual Production Anne Damer
Most library catalogues wrongly ascribe this book to Lady Charlotte Bury , though her preface clearly indicates that AD is the author. Carey and Lea of Philadelphia produced an American edition the same year. A...
Textual Production Catherine Gore
This novel was edited, with her initials, by Lady Charlotte Bury ; she disclaimed the political opinions of the narrator, or any first-hand knowledge of the material, since, she said, it dealt with a period...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
Textual Production Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Petrarch enjoyed great popularity in England at this time, in large part owing to the scholarly work of Susannah Dobson . Other poets channelled his voice (like Charlotte Smith, Anne Bannerman, Ann Yearsley, and Mary...
Textual Production Anne Damer
Colburn published, posthumously and anonymously Journal of the Heart, with a prefatory Some Account of AD 's life by Lady Charlotte Bury , identified as the authoress of Flirtation. Another edition, 1835, provides Damer's name.
Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel. Cambridge University Press.
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Textual Production Caroline Scott
CS published her first, anonymous novel, A Marriage in High Life, which was billed as edited by the authoress of Flirtation—meaning Scott's cousin the successful novelist Lady Charlotte Bury .
It was a...
Textual Features Susan Ferrier
SF 's letters deal mainly with day-to-day occurrences, but her literary opinons are always worth having. She comments on several works by Lady Charlotte Campbell (later Bury) . Reading Austen 's Emma in 1816 (the...
Textual Features Dorothy Wellesley
DW 's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington , doyenne of the albums...
Author summary Caroline Scott
CS published three anonymous novels over a span of almost thirty years, beginning under the patronage of her novelist cousin Lady Charlotte Bury . Meanwhile she had become an Evangelical Christian, who put her fervent...
Literary responses Catherine Sinclair
Timothy C. Baker has noted that recent scholarship follows CS 's contemporaries in overlooking her adult novels. For the monument-makers, Sinclair's fame rests on a combination of civic and literary achievement; curiously, however, her widely...
Literary responses Frances Jacson
Maria Edgeworth read this novel on its appearance (firmly preferring it to Jane Austen's Emma), and two years later mentioned it as the title defining FJ 's achievement.
Percy, Joan. “An Unrecognized Novelist: Frances Jacson (1754-1842)”. British Library Journal, Vol.
23
, No. 1, pp. 81-97.
96n5
Published almost simultaneously with Austen
Literary responses Anna Seward
Scott confided to Joanna Baillie after AS 's death that he had developed a most unsentimental horror for her sentimental letters while he was receiving them.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
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Of much comment after their publication, Lady Charlotte Bury
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...

Timeline

18 March 1958: The attendance of debutantes at Court for...

Building item

18 March 1958

The attendance of debutantes at Court for formal presentation to the Queen took place for the final time.

Texts

Bury, Lady Charlotte. "Alla Giornata"; or, To the Day. Saunders and Otley, 1826.
Scott, Caroline. A Marriage in High Life. Editor Bury, Lady Charlotte, H. Colburn, 1828.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. Conduct is Fate. William Blackwood and T. Cadell, 1822.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. Diary Illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth. Editor Galt, John, Henry Colburn, 1839.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. Family Records; or, The Two Sisters. Saunders and Otley, 1841.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. Flirtation. H. Colburn, 1827.
Damer, Anne. Journal of the Heart. Editor Bury, Lady Charlotte, H. Colburn, 1830.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. Love. H. Colburn, 1837.
Gore, Catherine. Memoirs of a Peeress; or, The Days of Fox. Editor Bury, Lady Charlotte, Colburn, 1837.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. Poems on Several Occasions. 1797.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. Self-Indulgence. Printed by T. Allan for G. R. Clarke, 1812.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. Suspirium Sanctorum; or, Holy Breathings. Saunders and Otley, 1826.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. The Devoted. R. Bentley, 1836.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. The Disinherited; and, The Ensnared. R. Bentley, 1834.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. The Divorced. Henry Colburn, 1837.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. The Exclusives. H. Colborn and R. Bentley, 1830.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. The History of a Flirt. H. Colburn, 1840.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. The Lady of Fashion. 1856.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. The Manoevring Mother. H. Colburn, 1842.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. The Murdered Queen! or, Caroline of Brunswick. Emans, 1838.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. The Roses. Hurst and Blackwell, 1853.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. The Separation. H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830.
Bury, Lady Charlotte, and Edward John Bury. The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany. John Murray, 1833.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. The Two Baronets. Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. The Wilfulness of Woman. H. Colburn, 1844.