Macdonald, Simon. “Identifying Mrs Meeke: Another Burney Family Novelist”. Review of English Studies, Oxford University Press.
Charles Burney
Standard Name: Burney, Charles,, the elder
Used Form: Doctor Burney
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Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | 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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Meeke | In 1767 Eliza Allen married again. Her second husband was the widowed, rising musician Charles Burney
. |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Arthur Murphy
, Edmund Burke
, Oliver Goldsmith
, Charles Burney
, and David Garrick
. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press. 157 |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Smith | 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... |
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