Memoirs of Dr. Charles Burney 1726-1769, ed. Slava Klima, Garry Bowers, and Kerry S. Grant, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1988. journals of the House of Commons. James L. Clifford, Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale), 2nd edn., Oxford, 1952.
Besides Long, a Wiltshire gentleman to whom Elizabeth Linley was actually engaged at one time, and Mathews (1743-1820), a Welsh squire living at Bath who pursued her even after his own marriage, Miss Linley's many admirers included ...
Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was...
Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life.
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (Frances Burney)
The Wanderer is the tale of a penniless émigrée from Revolutionary France trying to earn her living in England while guarding her own secrets.
This two-volume set of the comedies and tragedies of Frances Burney (1752-1840) reveals her remarkable, yet little-known, talent as a dramatist. Compiled from the original manuscripts, it includes a substantial...
... in Linda Kelly, Susanna, the Captain & the Castrato: Scenes from the Burney Salon, 1779–80 (London: Starhaven, 2004); and in Philip Olleson, ed., The Journals and Letters of Susan Burney: Music and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century ...
"This edition reprints the text of Burney's classic novel together with a broad selection of documents on life in eighteenth-century England that have been carefully chosen to put the work in historical and cultural context.
... as that for wch she has since been so justly celebrated (CB Mem., p. 51). See Betty Rizzo, 'Friends: Molly Carter and Louisa Clarges', Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century BritishWomen (Athens: University ...
Cependant le consentement de Cécile n'était rien, à moins que le mariage ne s'accomplît immédiatement ; aussi ne négligea-t- il rien pour l'y déterminer. Cécile, aussi ingénue que vertueuse, ne chercha point, par de vaines difficultés, ...
criedEllis, wiping her eyes,but vainly attemptingto repressfreshtears; 't'aìjè chercheè, t'aìjè attendue, t'aìjèsi ardemment desireè, pour te retrouver ainsi? pleurant sur un tombeau? Et toi!—ne me rappelletu pas?
ne te reverraije jamais! ... Loin de toi ma malheureuse destinée! je priai Dieu pour ta conservation quand je te possedois encore; ... t'aì-jè attendue, t'aì-jè si ardemment desireè, pour te retrouver ainsi? pleurant sur un tombeau? 4.
CAN any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence?
Fanny Burney and Her Friends: Select Passages from Her Diary and Other Writings
Also known as Frances Burney and, after her marriage, as Madame d'Arblay. Frances Burney was a novelist, diarist and playwright. In total, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one biography...
Stewart J. Cooke teaches English at Dawson College --Book Jacket.
Frances Burney (1752-1840), also known as Fanny Burney and after marriage as Madame D'Arblay, was a novelist, diarist, and playwright.
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Dr. Johnson & Fanny Burney: Being the Johnsonian Passages from the Works of Mme. D'Arblay