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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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	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	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	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
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	Jane Austen	Despite some later revision, Northanger Abbey is essentially (like its ancestor Susan) a novel of the 1790s, a spoof of both the gothic and romance modes which were then all the rage. Austen's specific...
Intertextuality and Influence	Margaret Holford	The novel shows considerable skill but an excess of words and of characters. Selima, daughter of a clandestine marriage, is adopted by the old maid Anne Aubrey after being brought up initially by an old...
Intertextuality and Influence	Beatrix Potter	BP was not content with her success as a children's writer, but hankered to establish herself as an author for adults. Her references in her private writings to Burney (a propos of her first appearance...
Intertextuality and Influence	Jane Austen	Anne Elliot, heroine of Persuasion, gets a second chance to marry the man she had rejected nine years before under pressure from her elders. His prospects of a self-made career did not at that...

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