Charles Burney

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)

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

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

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

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...

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