Charles Burney

FB published her last novel, The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties, with a lengthy dedication to her father .

Before becoming an author herself, FB worked as amanuensis or copyist to her father , regularly transcribing his work to go to the printer.

FB 's father, the musicologist and music teacher Charles Burney , was a man of great charm and ability who rose to eminence by his own efforts. He numbered among his friends members of the...

In 1767 Eliza Allen married again. Her second husband was the widowed, rising musician Charles Burney .

SHB 's mother, formerly Elizabeth Allen , a widow with three children when she married Charles Burney , was disliked and resented not only by her step-children but apparently by her own children as well...

Much has been written on Charles Burney 's relations with his children. He was an intensely caring, controlling, and emotionally demanding father. His children loved him, but with ambivalence. His furtherance of Frances Burney's career...

In August 1793 Augusta married Alexandre de Foville, a French émigré, in spite of difficulties caused by the difference of religion and lack of parental consent, without which the groom was not entitled to marry...

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...

Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke in Bristol the previous September...

Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds , Arthur Murphy , Edmund Burke , Oliver Goldsmith , Charles Burney , and David Garrick . Later came the young Frances Burney , who became a...

As a result of her friendship with the musicologist Charles Burney (1726-1814), FB became a friend of his daughter Frances as well. Frances Burney liked Brooke, but was worried at her close friendship with...

Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period...

Cornelia corresponded regularly with Violet for four years (until her death), encouraging the latter's interests in European, especially Italian, literature and music, as well as the development of Violet's own work. Cornelia gave Violet a...

Charles Burney , too, slighted his youngest daughter's work in comparison with the elder's.Jane Austen later noted that Clarentine seemed good on the first reading, not so good on the second, and unnatural...

Charles Burney wrote to congratulate AH on writing words so suitable for singing.