Frances Burney (1752 - 1840)

Short name Frances Burney
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First name Frances
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Alternative name Fanny Burney , Madame d'Arblay
Date of birth 1752
Date of death 1840
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Sex Female
Place of birth England
Place of death England
Lived in France , England
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Related to Charlotte Barrett , Hester Chapone - Mulso , Germaine de Staël , Hester Lynch Salusbury Thrale Piozzi , Sarah Harriet Burney , Marie-Elisabeth Bouée
Bibliography MENTIONED IN: - Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) II, 671-3, 703. - Pléiade, p.440, 459 (year of death: 1840); Bloom, Edward A. 1970. Introd. to Evelina. By Frances Burney. Oxford: Oxford University Press. vii-xxxi. Chisholm, Kate. 1998. Fanny Burney: Her Life 1752-1840. London: Chatto and Windus. Civale, Susan. 2011. The Literary Afterlife of Frances Burney and the Victorian Periodical Press. Victorian Periodicals Review 43 (3): 236-66. Clark, Lorna. 2007. The Afterlife and Further Reading. The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney. Ed. Peter Sabor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 163-79. Clark, Lorna J., ed. 2007. A Celebration of Frances Burney. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Cutting-Gray, Joanne. 1992. Woman as Nobody and the Novels of Fanny Burney. Gainesville, Tallahassee, Tampa: University Press of Florida. Devlin, D. D. 1987. The Novels and Journals of Fanny Burney. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan. Dobson, Austin. 1903. Fanny Burney. London: Macmillan. Doody, Margaret Anne. 1988. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. Epstein, Julia. 1989. The Iron Pen: Frances Burney and the Politics of Women’s Writing. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. Epstein, Julia. 1996. Marginality in Frances Burney’s Novels. The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Ed. John Richetti. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 198-211. Gibbs, Lewis. 1941. Introduction. The Diary of Fanny Burney. London: Dent and Sons, New York: Dutton and Co. vii-xi. Harman, Claire. 2001. Fanny Burney: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Haslett, Moyra. 2003. Pope to Burney, 1714-1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Hemlow, Joyce. 1950. Fanny Burney and the Courtesy Books. PMLA 65 (5): 732-61. Hemlow, Joyce. 1958. The History of Fanny Burney. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Hemlow, Joyce, et al. 1972-84. Introductions and Notes to The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney. 12 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press. LaBeck Stepankowsky, Paula. 2007. Foreword to A Celebration of Frances Burney. Ed. Lorna J. Clark. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. xi-xiii. Ożarska, Magdalena. 2007. The Appeal of Beauty in Distress as Seen in Fanny Burney’s Evelina and Samuel Richardson’s Pamela: Some Typological and Intertextual Issues. Casopis Philologia: The Philologia Journal 5: 71-78. Ożarska, Magdalena. 2009. Fanny Burney’s Courtship Strategies as Evidence of her Transition from a “Nobody” to an Independent Self. From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria: Readings in 18th- and 19th-Century British Literature and Culture. Warsaw: Uniwersytet Warszawski. 353-60. Ożarska, Magdalena. 2009a. “I am married, my dearest Susan, – I look upon it in that light”: Fanny Burney’s Court Experience Followed by Reintegration with Society. Theatrum Historiae. No. 4 Amitié, Convivialité, Hospitalité / Friendship, Conviviality, Hospitality ISECS International Seminar for Junior Eighteenth-Century Scholars. Pardubice: Pardubice University Press. 187-204. Ożarska, Magdalena. OOżarska, Magdalena. Lacework or Mirror? Diary Poetics of Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. Ożarska, Magdalena. 2012. Nobody Comes through the Door: Mapping Frances Burney’s Nuneham Experience as a Rite of Passage. From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture. Warsaw: Uniwersytet Warszawski. 387-96. Rizzo, Betty. 2007. Burney and Society. The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney. Ed. Peter Sabor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 131-46. Rogers, Katharine M. 1990. Frances Burney: The World of Female Difficulties. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Harvester Wheatesheaf. Sabor, Peter, ed. 2007. The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney. 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Provisional Notes Mention_in_PamelaL.Cheek,Heroines-and-Local-Girls_2019 Her journals make references to her reading the following: James Thomson’s The Seasons (1730), Laurence Sterne’s both novels, Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (1748), Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), alongside Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered (1580), The Guardian (1713); as well as works of French religious authors (Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet’s 1680s Oraisons funèbres), philosophers (Jean-François Marmontel’s 1804 Memoires d’un père), poets (Jacques Delille’s 1806 L’Imagination, poème en huit chants; Jean-Baptiste Rousseau) Burney's journals testify to her being impressed by Laurence Sterne, whom she mentions, imitates or parodies a couple of times. She also compares a couple of Sterne's imitations. Acquaintance of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Richard Sheridan, David Garrick MaOz 5thTrainingSchoolFeb13 - Survived, and later graphically described, a mastectomy, performed while she was fully conscious, in Paris. (FScottJuly12.) Both father and brother called Charles Burney. Received a pension of 100 pounds a year after her position as Second Keeper of the Robes of Queen Charlotte. Wrote subsequent novels for money. Published anonymously "Evelina" and "Cecilia" ("by the author of Evelina"). - diarist - political writer FScottJuly12 KLK 1904
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Religion / ideology Protestant
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Spouse D'Arblay, Frances
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Place(s) of Residence France , England