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.
Photo of the painting of Frances Burney by her cousin Edward Francisco Burney, c. 1784-5. She is turned to the viewer's left with lowered gaze, wearing a long-sleeved pale pink gown with a pink bow and a dark shawl; but the portrait is dominated by her huge hat with puffed-up crown and bow of broad ribbon. National Portrait Gallery

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Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Ham
The story, set in Anglo-Saxon England, is that treated by Frances Burney in her only play to reach the stage during her lifetime, Edwy and Elgiva. EH was too young as well as...
Intertextuality and Influence Nancy Mitford
This is another worldly satirical comedy. The parents in question are divided by nationality (Grace is English, Charles is French) and class (bourgeoisie and nobility). Their son Sigismund, or Sigi, delights in setting one against...
Intertextuality and Influence Amelia Bristow
The Maniac deals with the effects of the Irish Rebellion. The narrator, Albert, has gone mad after returning home to find his house sacked and wife and children murdered. His sister, Emma, also dies and...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Lamb
The littlest girl of all is already worried by social pressures to conform: she discloses the shameful fact that the flowers she loves best are the common buttercup, and the daisy which is reckoned the...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Maria Mackenzie
Also on the boat, Adolphus meets a fourteen-year-old apparent orphan, Mary St Leger, and her saintly missionary uncle. Mary's guardian is not her uncle but the repellant Mr Abrams, who once in England encourages an...
Leisure and Society Joanna Baillie
In the earlier 1840s, however, she was still a keen reader. She tackled the first edition of Frances Burney 's Diary and Letters out of a desire to get some insight into the literary society...
Literary responses Charlotte Smith
On the strength of this novel the Critical Review hailed CS as less agitating than Ann Radcliffe , less diverting than Frances Burney , but more true to nature than either. In the Monthly...
Literary responses Frances Brooke
FB was listed by the Monthly Review as one of the nine British Muses in April 1774. Anna Seward in 1796 recorded her preference of the lively Brooke to Frances Burney , of whom each...
Literary responses Anna Letitia Barbauld
Frances Burney thought this the best of all Barbauld's poems. Hannah More wrote to thank ALB for writing so well on a subject so near her, More's heart,
Paul, Lissa. The Children’s Book Business. Routledge, 2011.
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and recommended the poem to Elizabeth Montagu
Literary responses Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
Hester Lynch Piozzi evidently felt later that these stories were very strong meat for children. She commented in a letter, I think a great Change has been made in Taste of popular Literature—or rather popular...
Literary responses Cassandra Lady Hawke
CLH 's immediate family were warm in their admiration. Frances Burney , who read Julia de Gramont when it was passed to her by the queen, found it all of a piece—all love, love, love...
Literary responses Sarah Harriet Burney
Clarentine was a successful debut. The Critical Review (which opened its brief review on the author's relationship to her elder sister ) said it was greatly superior to novels of the ordinary stamp; and it...
Literary responses Anna Maria Bennett
William Enfield in the Monthly Review thought this book an inferior imitation of Burney 's Cecilia, but added a little faint praise. The Critical, with depressing predictability, censured AMB 's intricate plot and...
Literary responses Elizabeth Singer Rowe
In a later generation Anna Letitia Barbauld followed Hertford and Carter in celebrating ESR her in poetry. Such different figures as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Clara Reeve endorsed her. She had a huge following...
Literary responses Charlotte Lennox
Samuel Johnson pronounced in conversation that CL was worthy to rank with the exceptional women Carter , More , and Burney : more yet, she was superiour to them all.
Boswell, James, 1740 - 1795. Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Editors Hill, George Birkbeck and Laurence Fitzroy Powell, Clarendon, 1934, 6 vols.
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