Frances Burney (1752 - 1840)

Short name Frances Burney
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First name Frances
Birth name Burney
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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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Religion / ideology Protestant
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Place(s) of Residence France , England
Receptions of Frances Burney, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title Author Date Type
*Presence in Behn Catalogue ~Behn (owner of library) 1801 lists person
*Mention in Indice alfabetico della Biblioteca di Casa Gozze Unknown reader (to be identified) 1819 lists person
On the Female Literature of the Present Age Unknown author (to be identified) 1820 comments on person
Frances Burney Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1858 comments on person
*Mention in article in De Gids *Mention in article in De Gids Everardus Johannes Potgieter 1859 mentions person
Engelske forfatterinder: Madame d’Arblay English autoresses: Madame d'Arblay Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1863 is biography of
*Mention in Art. in De Gids Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1863 mentions person
*Mention in Art. in De Gids Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1871 mentions person
*Letter (mentioning Burney) to Verweij Adèle Sophia Cornelia Opzoomer 1886 comments on person
*The social advancement of women in this century Millicent Fawcett 1888 comments on person
Kvindesagen The Woman Question Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1888 comments on person
Madame D'Arblay Unknown reader (to be identified) 1895 comments on person
Women Novelists Virginia Woolf 1918 mentions person
*Mention in Art. Shelley's pad naar de dichtkunst André Jolles 1922 mentions person
Fanny Burney in haar leven en werk Jeanne Reyneke van Stuwe 1934 comments on person
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. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Sabor, Peter, and Lars. E. Troide. 2001. Introd. to Journals and Letters. By Frances Burney. Eds. Peter Sabor and Lars. E. Troide. London: Penguin Books. xiii-xxii. Schellenberg, Betty A. 2002. From Propensity to Profession: Female Authorship and the Early Career of Frances Burney. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 14 (3-4): 345-70. Schrank, Barbara G. and David J. Supino, eds. 1976. The Famous Miss Burney: the Diaries and Letters of Fanny Burney. New York: Minerva Press. Simons, Judy. 1990. Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf. London: Macmillan. Spacks, Patricia Meyer. 1988. Dynamics of Fear: Fanny Burney. Modern Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature. Ed. Leopold Damrosch Jr. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 455-88. Straub, Kristina. 1987. Divided Fictions. Fanny Burney and Feminine Strategy. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. Thaddeus, Janice Farrar. 2000. Frances Burney: A Literary Life. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. White, Eugene. 1960. Fanny Burney, Novelist. Hamden, Connecticut: The Shoe String Press. Wiltshire, John. 2007. Journals and Letters. The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney. Ed. Peter Sabor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 75-92. Woolf, Virginia. 1967. Collected Essays. Vol. 3. London: The Hogarth Press.
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