Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Frances Burney
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Standard Name: Burney, Frances
Birth Name: Frances Burney
Nickname: Fanny
Nickname: The Old Lady
Married Name: Frances D'Arblay
Indexed Name: Madame D'Arblay
Pseudonym: A Sister of the Order
Used Form: the author of Evelina
Used Form: the author of Evelina and Cecilia
Used Form: the author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla
FB
, renowned as a novelist in her youth and middle age, outlived her high reputation; her fourth and last novel (published in 1814) was her least well received. Her diaries and letters, posthumously published, were greeted with renewed acclaim. During the late twentieth century the re-awakening of interest in her fiction and the rediscovery of her plays revealed her as a woman of letters to be reckoned with. Today her reputation in the academic world stands high, and productions of her plays are no longer isolated events.
Foster, Edward Halsey. Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Twayne.
129
in America, this book had a more mixed reception in Britain. A long review in the Athenæum began by describing CMS
as clear of affectation to the extent of being...
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Angela Thirkell
She was anxious about publication, partly because she had not told her parents that she was writing a novel: this led her mentor W. Graham Robertson
to liken her to Fanny Burney
.
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth.
75-6
From...
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Alice Meynell
She often used this column to address the works of literary women of the past. She judged Jane Austen
inferior to Charlotte Brontë
, accepting Brontë's opinion that Austen lacked what she, by implication, possessed:...
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Frances Brooke
FB
invited Frances Burney
to collaborate with her on a new periodical; Burney declined.
The date is from Brooke's letter expressing regret.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press.
204-5, 235n2
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Charlotte Smith
It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard
did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children...
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Eliza Parsons
She gave her name as Mrs. Parsons on the title-page and signed the dedication with both her names.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 512
A title-page epigraph reads: Brutus said Virtue was but a name—tis more. ....
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Cassandra Cooke
As well as writings by CC
now among the Beachcroft family private archive (at the Bodleian Library
) and the Stoneleigh papers (at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
, Stratford-upon-Avon), the letters whose backs Frances Burney
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Hester Lynch Piozzi
HLP
was a voluminous letter-writer all her life. Though scholarly estimates differ, there is no doubt that thousands of her letters survive. The first selection appeared in print in 1833. Many early editions, however, had...
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May Crommelin
The story opens as Irene Ronaldson receives the news that she has inherited a fortune of twenty thousand pounds a year.
“May Crommelin (Maria Henriette de la Cherois-Crommelin) (1849 - 1930)”. Crommelin Family, The Netherlands.
Irene is an orphan: her father lost everything in a bank crash, went out...
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Anna Maria Mackenzie
AMM
's opening address To the Readers of Modern Romance says that ancient romance was put paid to by the new source of amusement . . . struck out by Henry Fielding
and Richardson
(to...
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Virginia Woolf
She writes more directly of money, of the riches lavished through the ages on masculine institutions like the ancient universities, but here too her clinching example is one of the imagination: her contrast of the...
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Lady Anne Barnard
In a striking parallel with the young Frances Burney
, she makes her writing her confidante: in thy Breast can secrets rest, / Thy chattering tongue will neer reveal, / What we require thee to...
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Catherine Hutton
This character, which novelistic convention would make a peripheral caricature (though his vigorous writing style has no oddity like, for instance, that of Frances Burney
's Mr Briggs), becomes incorporated, without reforming in character, into...
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Mary Julia Young
MJY
foregrounds her own friendship with Anna Maria Crouch, and finds room for such details as the opinions of Crouch's father, Peregrine Phillips
, about novelists: he admired Charlotte Smith
, Anna Maria Bennett
,...
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Frances Jacson
The title-page quotes from Milton
's Samson Agonistes. An address To the Dethroned Sovereign Truth hopes for the restoration of this power which, says the author, is still present although obsolete and obscure. Her...
