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...
Residence
Sarah Harriet Burney
SHB
lived in apartments at the Royal Hospital
, Chelsea, where her father
had been appointed organist.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
xxxiv
Residence
Frances Burney
Charles Burney
moved his family, including his daughter Fanny
, from King's Lynn to London.
Burney, Frances. “Introduction and front matter”. Journals and Letters, edited by Peter Sabor and Lars E. Troide, Penguin, 2001, p. vii - xxviii.
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Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
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Textual Features
Naomi Royde-Smith
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...
Textual Features
Vernon Lee
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...
Textual Features
Frances Burney
Evelina opens with an ode to Charles Burney
(unnamed) as Author of my Being, which sounds like an apology for having written.
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.