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.
Probably the last full-length fiction to appear by EM
was published in her name: What Shall Be, Shall Be. A Novel; again a character name was borrowed from Frances Burney
.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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later remembered that she was writing poetry at seven or eight. She also planned large literary projects
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
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including a prequel to Homer
's Iliad. Like Frances Burney
, she tried to...
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Felicia Hemans
Gary Kelly
speculates that Felicia Browne may have been the translator (signing F. B.) of Italian patriot and political exile Ugo Foscolo
's autobiographical novel Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis in 1812.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, pp. 12 - 89; various pages.
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Jan Morris
More than a decade later, in 1978, JM
followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less...
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Hester Mulso Chapone
HMC
's surviving letters span the years both before and after her marriage. Apart from her best-known letters, exchanged with Richardson
himself, Richardson's circle, and other Bluestockings of the original generation, she corresponded with Frances Burney
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick
While apparently received enthusiastically
Foster, Edward Halsey. Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Twayne.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Cassandra, Lady Hawke
By early 1782, when she met with Frances Burney
, CLH
had written or drafted two novels. According to her sister, Lady Saye and Sele
(who was keen that Burney should read them both), one...
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May 1992: The Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British...
Parker, Pamela Corpron. “A Conference of Our Own: on the 20th Anniversary of the BWWA”. The Female Spectator, Vol.
16
, No. 1, p. 6.
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November 2003: A painting by John Hoppner entitled Portrait...
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November 2003
A painting by John Hoppner
entitled Portrait of a Lady as Evelina (Frances Burney
's earliest heroine, born in January 1778) sold at Sotheby
's to an unnamed private buyer for £173,600.
6 May 2009: The antiquarian book collection of the late...
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6 May 2009
The antiquarian book collection of the late Paula Fentress Peyraud
(the largest in private hands), auctioned in New York, fetched more than $1.5 million US. Books by women between 1760 and 1830 predominated.
