Charles Burney

FB published her last work, the lovingly laboured and highly deferential Memoirs of Doctor Burney.

In this text VL attempts to judge and recreate elements of artistic and social climates: the growth and decline of the Academy of Arcadia , public performances of opera and commedia del'arte, and, in her...

NRS opens her story with Jane Fairfax as a little orphan growing up in the family of Colonel and Mrs Campbell, whose naughty daughter Euphrasia is a likable foil to her throughout. She ends it...

Evelina opens with an ode to Charles Burney (unnamed) as Author of my Being, which sounds like an apology for having written. The preface acknowledges the formative influence of Richardson (as well as Henry Fielding

Charles Burney moved his family, including his daughter Fanny , from King's Lynn to London.

SHB lived in apartments at the Royal Hospital , Chelsea, where her father had been appointed organist.

The result was The Witlings. A Comedy by a Sister of the Order. But the play's first, private readership rejected it. Charles Burney , and even more Samuel Crisp (who had suffered the experience...

Subscribers included the Prince of Wales and other royalty, Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach , Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , her daughter the Countess of Carlisle , Charles Burney , Warren Hastings , Miss De Camp (later Maria Theresa Kemble)

SHB was again devoting herself to the care of her elderly father , who had had a stroke and was living as an invalid.

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...

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...

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...

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...