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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Connections Author name Excerpt
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. Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Editors Hill, George Birkbeck and Laurence Fitzroy Powell, Clarendon.
4: 275
Literary responses Charlotte Lennox
The novel was noticed in the Critical Review, which approved it, while diagnosing too much reliance on ideas from Frances Burney .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2nd ser. 2 (1791): 233
Literary responses Charlotte Lennox
CL kept copies of a number of verse tributes to her talents. She was one among the painter Richard Samuel 's The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain in 1778 (exhibited 1779).
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Concluded)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
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, No. 4, pp. 416-35.
429-31
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford.
199
It...
Friends, Associates Harriet Lee
HL , like her sister, was personally friendly with many other writers of her day: Jane and Anna Maria Porter , Ann Radcliffe (even though the latter probably did not, as often reported, attend the...
Family and Intimate relationships Sophia Lee
Among strikingly various estimates of his acting ability, Frances Burney was his firm admirer.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii.
xxiv
Friends, Associates Sophia Lee
Their school, together with their literary careers, brought SL and her sisters a wide circle of friends and contacts, including Jane and Anna Maria Porter . The novelist Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins describes Sophia as surrounded...
Friends, Associates Vernon Lee
Cornelia corresponded regularly with Violet for four years (until her death), encouraging the latter's interests in European, especially Italian, literature and music, as well as the development of Violet's own work. Cornelia gave Violet a...
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 ,...
Publishing Vernon Lee
VL originally asked to write the series's volume on Frances Burney , but accepted the publisher's offer of fifty pounds to write the life of the Countess. Both her scholarly and her creative interest was...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Caroline Lamb
She apparently recruited her devils from the ranks of the theatre companies; the Morning Chronicle complained that there were too many of them.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan.
224
She may have been thinking of another referent besides Byron: the...
Intertextuality and Influence Lady Caroline Lamb
The title-page of volume one of Graham Hamilton quotes Burns ; the second quotes Swift denouncing scandal. Though quieter, this novel again displays splendid satirical energy. It contains only one lyric (written by Nathan for...
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...
Textual Features L. E. L.
The novel also has a strong political element. It comments on the power of newspapers in national life, through reporting and editorials but also through advertising. Mr Delawarr is, says literary historian Edward Copeland, a...
Literary responses Ellis Cornelia Knight
Dinarbas was popular during ECK 's lifetime. It warranted fairly favourable mention from Frances Burney , who wrote to a friend that if you could overlook the presumption of the idea of writing a continuation...
Textual Features Mary Ann Kelty
At the end of the first volume Mortimer twice proposes to Eliza: once face to face and unpremeditatedly, then by letter. She does not accept him. By the end of the next volume he is...

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