Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
, pp. 12-35. 22-3
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Burney | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Germaine de Staël | At the age of twenty-one, in 1788, GS
embarked on her first love-affair, with Count Louis de Narbonne
, a leader of the French liberalising party, and also a notorious rake. By early 1793 the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Germaine de Staël | Apart from her short-lived legitimate daughter, GS
had two sons by Narbonne
, a daughter, Albertine, the result of her affair with Benjamin Constant
, and a youngest son whose father was John Rocca
. Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 22-3 |
Friends, Associates | Germaine de Staël | One of her associates in her English visit was the future husband
of Frances Burney
. Burney thought her a woman of the first abilities, very much in the style of Mrs Thrale but with... |
politics | Germaine de Staël | Habitués of her salon included Lafayette
, Condorcet
, Narbonne
, Talleyrand
, and Thomas Jefferson
. Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 21 |
Residence | Germaine de Staël | GS
left Surrey for her parents' home, Coppet in Switzerland, without her lover Narbonne
, from whom she now separated. Burney, Frances. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D’Arblay). Editors Hemlow, Joyce and Althea Douglas, Clarendon Press. 2: 139 Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 25 |
Textual Features | Helen Craik | Authors quoted on HC
's title-page include La Rochefoucauld
. Mary Robinson
's Walsingham is quoted in volume two and supplies the epigraph for volume three. Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, pp. 193-32. 228n47 |
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