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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became Mrs Burney on marrying her cousin Charles Rousseau Burney, the explorer James Burney, the celebrated writer Frances Burney (often called Fanny), the...
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Fanny is a feminine given name. Its origins include diminutives of the French name Frances meaning "free one", and of the name "Estefanía", a Spanish version...
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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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novels like Roxana by Daniel Defoe, Evelina by Fanny Burney, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and specifically Fanny Hill. Haslanger claims that "the paradox of...
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Rochester, New York. She was named after English novelist Frances (Fanny) Burney, the American poet Frances Osgood, and her sister, Elizabeth Caroline, who had...
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Burney, a music historian, and his first wife, Esther Sleepe. He was a brother of the novelist and diarist Fanny Burney and the explorer James Burney...
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seafarer James Burney, the writer Frances "Fanny" Burney, the scholar Charles Burney and the writer Sarah Harriet Burney. Her elder sister Esther went with her...
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house in May 1775, of which a vivid description by the 22-year-old Frances (Fanny) Burney survives: "I had the satisfaction to sit next to Mr. Harris, who...
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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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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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son of Richard Burney and Elizabeth Humphries. The musicologist Charles Burney was his uncle and the writer Frances (or "Fanny") Burney was his cousin...
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Johnson. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Burney, Frances (1971). Gibbs, L. (ed.). The Diary of Fanny Burney. London: Dent (Everyman edition). Franklin...
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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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Feeling (1771) by Henry Mackenzie Evelina (1778), and Camilla (1796) by Fanny Burney 19th century Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813)...
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Frances Burney and first published in 1778. Although published anonymously, its authorship was revealed by the poet George Huddesford in what Burney called...
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Walpole's poem The Beauties (1746) mentions her as "Fanny" among the most prominent women at court. Frances married Fulke Greville of Wilbury House (Wiltshire)...
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Edwy and Elgiva is a historical tragedy by the English writer Fanny Burney. Written in 1790 it was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in...
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Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Rogers, Pat. "Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances [Fanny] (1752–1840)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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monk transcribed by Chatterton. March – Fanny Burney is introduced to Samuel Johnson by her father, Charles Burney. April 1 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's...
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p. 538. Retrieved 17 April 2024. Burney, Fanny (13 October 2011). The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: 1787. OUP Oxford. p. 227...
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Ralph Broome (pamphleteer) (category Burney family)
marriage caused consternation in Charlotte's father Charles Burney, sister Frances Burney and other family members, mainly because of doubts about Broome's...
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vaudevilles, tragedies and poems. Goyau 1910. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay). Volume 1, 1791-1792. Edited by Joyce Hemlow, et al...
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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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mainly concerned the Burneys, especially the novelist Frances Burney, best profiled in her award-winning book The History of Fanny Burney, which received the...
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Music. His calls on the Burney family in London in 1775 were vividly and affectionately described by Burney's daughter Fanny: "He is a man of learning...
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literary company. When Fanny Burney was admitted to the circle, Samuel Crisp wrote "Where will you find such another set? Oh, Fanny, set this down as the...
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Retrieved 3 February 2018. Fanny Burney; Stewart Cooke (13 October 2011). The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: 1787. OUP Oxford...
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1782". National Galleries of Scotland. Burney, Fanny (2015). The Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199658114...
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had invented. Even though she regarded him as a foreigner, novelist Fanny Burney wrote of Merlin with affection: "He is a great favourite in our house...
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