Emma received eight reviews in English: more than any other Austen novel. Murray
sounded apologetic as he invited Walter Scott to review it (It wants incident and romance does it not?).
qtd. in
Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. Penguin Viking, 1997.
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Literary responses
Frances Burney
FB
never disappeared from literary consciousness to the same extent as many of her female contemporaries, but she was usually treated with condescension. Austin Dobson
published a life of her in 1903 in Macmillan
's...
Publishing
Frances Burney
Work then began under the editorship of Lars E. Troide
at the beginning of the earlier journals: The Early Journals and Letters (five volumes, 1988-2012, which take the young Burney to 1783), The Court Journals...
Publishing
Sarah Fielding
The preface sounds condescending today, yet it offers high literary praise. Henry brushed up his sister's grammar and replaced colloquial words and expressions with more formal ones. He also altered her punctuation, notably removing her...
Publishing
Sarah Fielding
In 1763 this work received a second edition and translations into French and German (the latter the first of three renderings in a decade). It appeared with illustrations by Richard Corbould
in 1785. Peter Sabor
Reception
Jane Austen
In 1933 there was excitement in the book-collecting world when a small collection of books that Austen had owned (by writers like Ariosto
, Goldsmith
, Hume
, and Thomson
) appeared in the catalogue...
Textual Production
Frances Burney
The most substantial parts of FB
's immense hoard of personal and family papers are in the New York Public Library
(Berg Collection) and in the British Library
. Their division (sometimes two torn and...
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Texts
Grundy, Isobel. “’A Novel in a Series of Letters by a Lady’: Richardson and some Richardsonian Novels”. Samuel Richardson: Tercentenary Essays, edited by Margaret Anne Doody and Peter Sabor, Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 223-36.
Sabor, Peter. “Burneyana”. Johnsonian News Letter, edited by Robert, Jr DeMaria, Vol.
lv
, No. 2, pp. 38-40.
Burney, Frances. Cecilia. Editors Sabor, Peter and Margaret Anne Doody, Oxford World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Richardson, Samuel. Correspondence with Lady Bradshaigh and Lady Echlin. Editor Sabor, Peter, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Sabor, Peter. “Frances Burney in the ODNB”. Burney Letter, Vol.
11
, No. 2, p. 11.
Sabor, Peter. “Frances Burney Notes”. Johnsonian News Letter, edited by Robert, Jr DeMaria, Vol.
59
, No. 2, pp. 11-13.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
Burney, Frances. “Introduction and front matter”. Journals and Letters, edited by Peter Sabor and Lars E. Troide, Penguin, 2001, p. vii - xxviii.
Burney, Frances. Journals and Letters. Editors Sabor, Peter and Lars E. Troide, Penguin, 2001.
Keymer, Tom, and Peter Sabor. Pamela in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Sabor, Peter. “Part of an Englishwoman’s Constitution: Sarah Harriet Burney and Shakespeare”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference.
Côté, Nicole, and Peter Sabor, editors. “Table ronde”. Varieties of Exile: New Essays on Mavis Gallant, Peter Lang, 2002, pp. 75-104.
Fielding, Sarah. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last. Editor Sabor, Peter, University Press of Kentucky, 1998.
Sabor, Peter. “The Age of Burney”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. Editor Sabor, Peter, William Pickering, 1995, 2 vols.