Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright...
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titled) Memoirs of an Heiress, is the second novel by English author Frances Burney, set in 1779 and published in 1782. The novel, about the trials and...
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Charles Burney FRS (7 April 1726 – 12 April 1814) was an English music historian, composer and musician. He was the father of the writers Frances Burney and...
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Harriet de Boinville (section Frances Burney d'Arblay)
London and Paris. She influenced important writers of her day, including Frances Burney, William Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Giovanni Ruffini...
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Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (1779) by Frances Burney, take a sociological interest in the complex systems of etiquette and...
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membership required.) Frances Burney, p. 32. Frances Burney, p. 33. Frances Burney, pp. 54–56. Frances Burney, p. 59. Frances Burney, pp. 60–62. Williams...
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Camilla, subtitled A Picture of Youth, is a novel by Frances Burney, first published in 1796. Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of...
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The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties is Frances Burney’s last novel. Published in March 1814 by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, this historical...
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the female protagonist of Edwy and Elgiva, a 1790 verse tragedy by Frances Burney Emma of Normandy adopted the name Ælfgifu upon her marriage to Æthelred...
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the novelist and diarist Frances Burney (Madame d'Arblay). She had some intermittent success with her novels. Sarah Burney was born at Lynn Regis, now...
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Fanny (name) (section Pet form of Frances)
to poet John Keats Fanny Brough (1852–1914), British stage actress Frances Burney (1752–1840), English novelist, diarist and playwright Fanny Crosby (1820–1915)...
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Frances Burney (1776–1828) was an English playwright and governess, named for her famous aunt. Frances Burney was a niece of the novelists Frances Burney...
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(1849–1924), English playwright and author Frances Burney (1752–1840), English novelist, diarist and playwright Frances E. Burns (1866–1937), American social...
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generation came Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741–1821), Hannah More (1745–1833) and Frances Burney (1752–1840). The term now more broadly applies to women who show interest...
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asteroid Camilla (1994 film) Camilla (1954 film) Camilla (Burney novel), 1796, by Frances Burney (mentioned in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey) Camilla...
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October he was too ill to take the president's chair and in November, Frances Burney recorded that I had long languished to see that kindly zealous friend...
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with notable celebrities, including Lord Sandwich, Dr Samuel Johnson, Frances Burney and Anna Seward, among others. Richard Holmes remarks that Omai's idiosyncratic...
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novels, and poems. Eighteenth century authors such as Colley Cibber, Frances Burney, and William Congreve, to name but a few, prefaced the majority of their...
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Booth Bow Street Runners Marc Isambard Brunel Caroline of Brunswick Frances Burney James Burton Decimus Burton Lord Byron George Campbell, 6th Duke of...
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Frances Burney (1752–1840), English novelist and diarist Henry Burney (1792–1845), British agent, ambassador of the East India Company James Burney (1750–1821)...
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mental illness in 1788 distressed and terrified the Queen. The writer Frances Burney, at that time one of the Queen's attendants, overheard her moaning to...
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by those of renowned writer and critic Samuel Johnson and novelists Frances Burney and Maria Edgeworth. She considered poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott...
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was first performed in Drury Lane. 1778: Frances Burney published Evelina anonymously. 1779–1781: Samuel Johnson wrote and published...
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society, she came to have a "modest salon", and was close friends with Frances Burney and Samuel Johnson. Mary Woffington was born in Dublin, Ireland, in...
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befriending Charles and Frances Burney, as well as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who dedicated his The Critic to her. Her daughter, Frances Anne Crewe, (1748–1818)...
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Women. Anna Laetitia Barbauld James Beattie Frances Boscawen Henrietta Maria Bowdler Edmund Burke Frances Burney Elizabeth Carter Margaret Cavendish-Harley...
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is a comedic play written by Frances Burney in 1779. It is a comedy of manners that satirizes literary society. Burney's father believed the play was...
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by Henry James The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope Evelina by Frances Burney Exemplary Stories by Miguel de Cervantes The Exploration of the Colorado...
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well acquainted with Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire and Frances Burney (Madame D'Arblay) whom she frequently visited at her London home and...
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English author, translator and children's writer, and the stepsister of Frances Burney. She wrote about 30 novels, published by the Minerva Press in the late...
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