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
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, 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.
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, p. vii - viii; various pages.
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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.
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Anna Maria Bennett
This was again anonymous; some thought it by Frances Burney
. AMB
dedicated it to another of George III
's children, Prince William Henry
(a naval officer who would be in a position to offer...
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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...
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Elizabeth Meeke
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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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
The novel appeared in Dublin, before the London edition of the same year. Owenson dated her preface 2 November 1802. Her payment was said to consist of four free copies.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
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'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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Ann Taylor Gilbert
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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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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
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Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth.
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Julia Kavanagh
In this second work of women's literary history, JK
once again limits herself to the novel. Her canon comprises ten authors, from Aphra Behn
to Sydney Morgan
by way of Sarah Fielding
, Frances Burney
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Anna Seward
AS
's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi
about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only...
