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.
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The plot of this novel is a version of a romance archetype: poor but deserving girl confounds all expectations by marrying up. Elizabeth Bennet is the quintessence of the witty and resourceful heroine who had...
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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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Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
Edward Copeland discerns influences from Burney
's Evelina and The Wanderer.
Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
The feelings of this Emma are all in extremes. During her early passion she quotes Frances Greville
on the pains of sensibility.
She and her father kneel alternately to each other when she...
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Sarah Green
The plot owes something to Charlotte Lennox
's Female Quixote. The father of Green's heroine has lived through many crazes for novelists: first Burney
, then Radcliffe
, then Owenson
, then Rosa Matilda
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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, 1983.
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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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Elizabeth Montagu
A TLS review by R. W. Chapman
sounded distinctly anti-feminist. He wrote that by employing heroic remedies, the indomitable editor has cut away all the elaborate openings and studied conclusions, masses of domestic detail, nine-tenths...
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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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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, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 512
A title-page epigraph reads: Brutus said Virtue was but a name—tis more. ....
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Cassandra Lady Hawke
Lady Saye and Sele
told Burney
that one of the unpublished novels by her sister is in letters, like yours. . . it's called the 'Mausoleum of Julia'!
Burney, Frances. Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay. Editors Barrett, Charlotte and Austin Dobson, Macmillan, 1904–1905, 6 vols.
Of about a dozen other books in the series, this work was the only one written by a woman about a woman writer. Royds situates Barrett Browning within a strong tradition of women writers including...
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Elizabeth Meeke
EM
published, with her name, "There is a Secret, Find It Out!", a novel which quotes Griffith (probably Elizabeth Griffith
) on its title-page and borrows a character name from her stepsister Frances
's Evelina.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 281
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Hannah More
Like Frances Burney
's Brief Reflections Relative to the Emigrant French Clergy, this was written for the benefit of Frances Anne Crewe
's fund for relief of French clerical refugees. More expressed the hope...
