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.
Photo of the painting of Frances Burney by her cousin Edward Francisco Burney, c. 1784-5. She is turned to the viewer's left with lowered gaze, wearing a long-sleeved pale pink gown with a pink bow and a dark shawl; but the portrait is dominated by her huge hat with puffed-up crown and bow of broad ribbon. National Portrait Gallery

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Gore
According to the Athenæum's review, the professed object of this play is to teach wives to avoid even the most innocent coquetry.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
195 (1831): 477
The reviewer had snatched at, and arguably wrenched from...
Intertextuality and Influence Julia Frankau
This tie broadens the social scope of the novel. Karl is Jewish but not an observant Jew. He wishes he could believe in Christianity for its redeeming message and wants to extend that choice to...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Oakley
AO calls this book a mixture of scientific fastidiousness and poetic licence.
Oakley, Ann. Telling the Truth about Jerusalem. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
9
Her introduction, which is sub-titled the Snows of Seinäjoki,
Oakley, Ann. Telling the Truth about Jerusalem. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
3
both uses snow as a metaphor (for imaginative beauty, lovingly described...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Cuthbertson
The troubles of the pattern, orphan heroine, Julia De Clifford, are fairly conventional. Her father was the younger son of a noble family, disinherited in spite of being a military hero; when she enters fashionable...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Meeke
This novel opens on the low-bred Wheeler family (ex-servants in charge of a Westminster School boarding-house), and on a scene of noise, quarrelling, and confusion. The thoroughly nasty twenty-year-old John Wheeler comes home to seek...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Austen
JA 's biographer Claire Tomalin lists those women writers who were most important to her, for learning rather than for mockery, as Charlotte Lennox , Frances Burney , Charlotte Smith , Maria Edgeworth , and...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Maria Bennett
AMB 's usual huge cast of characters ranging from satirical to sentimental is introduced by a preface signed by one of them, explaining that what follows will be the autobiographical tale of her chequered existence...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Strutt
Influence of Frances Burney 's Evelina is perceptible here, and influence of Jane Austen seems at least a possibility: a family estate is named Maple Grove, as in Emma, and the heroine's marriage to...
Intertextuality and Influence Alethea Lewis
She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone , who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Green
This preface is headed by two Latin words (one with a faulty grammatical ending) from Ovid 's description of chaos. SG slams both male and female novelists, chiefly authors of gothic or horrid novels and...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
A few statements are footnoted to their originators, whom EPW has either paraphrased or versified: Sherlock and Lavater are her favourites, but she also draws on lighter writers like Horace , Swift , and Coleridge
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Isabella Spence
She does get away in the end and acquires several supporters (Lady Barbara Arden, Lord Dorringcourt, and his sister Lady Elinor), while Lord Valville is left to plot revenge with feelings even more diabolic than...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Ann Kelty
Having acquired her female mentor, Isabel faces the world of courtship and life-choices. Edward Leslie writes telling her how as a student he had loved Matilda Sutton, had then judged her too boring in her...
Intertextuality and Influence Susanna Centlivre
From this plot Frances Burney borrowed the four guardians of her heroine in Cecilia. Walter Scott thought the plot was extravagant enough (when the play was a hundred and ten years old) yet that...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Loudon
This strikingly inventive and ingenious tale seems to owe a good deal to Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein (though Shelley receives no tribute in passing, as do R. B. Sheridan , Byron , and especially Scott

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