Frances Burney

13 June 1752 - 06 January 1840

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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Theme or Topic Treated in Text	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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Elizabeth Jenkins	This biography, full and scholarly though not footnoted, is written with a kind of nostalgia for past times. It opens with a paragraph on the contrast between modern ugliness and the beauty of eighteenth-century design...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Vernon Lee	In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen , Maria Edgeworth ,...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Geraldine Jewsbury	Zoe reflects GJ 's own lifelong spiritual crisis. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000. 223-4 Susanne Howe notes that it anticipates later novels by Mary Augusta Ward and J. A. Froude , which also deal with spiritual doubt. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935. 72 Beginning in...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Eva Figes	Though she mentions such writers as Eliza Haywood and Mary Davys , she begins her detailed discussion with the 1790s (a time which twenty years on would be regarded as somewhat late in the history...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Camilla Crosland	In the preface she declares that she sought to simply set before the young women of the present day examples of wives and mothers who have done their duty under difficulties and temptations; and if...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	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
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Maria Riddell	The diary records some of her literary tastes: she copied there a letter expressing her dislike of tragedies (which, no matter how moral, she felt to be harmful to the mind because of the violent...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Adelaide O'Keeffe	The focus on education still allows much memorable extraneous detail. One of the characters for a moment thinks a seated clerical figure is a ghost. Topics discussed in stimulating detail among the adult characters include...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Anne Katharine Elwood	Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Griselda Murray , Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford , Hester Lynch Piozzi
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Anne Katharine Elwood	Her narratives detail the life events, character, appearance, and publication histories of the various authors. Frequently, as in the case of Austen , she devotes more time to sketching a physical and mental character than...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Beryl Bainbridge	Most of this novel's characters—Thrale, Johnson, the child Queeney, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins (in response to whose proddings Queeney produces her retrospective part of the narrative), Giuseppe Baretti , James Boswell , Frances Burney —left their own...
Wealth and Poverty	Anne Marsh	Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. Heath-Caldwell, J. J. “Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874), Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell)”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell. 1839-1842 They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...

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