Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and after her marriage as Madame d'Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in Lynn Regis, now King's Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to musical historian Dr. Charles Burney (1726–1814) and Esther Sleepe Burney (1725–1762). The third of six children, she was self-educated and began writing what she called her "scribblings" at the age of ten. In 1793, aged 42, she married a French exile, General Alexandre D'Arblay. Their only son, Alexander, was born in 1794. After a lengthy writing career, and travels that took her to France for more than ten years, she settled in Bath, England, where she died on 6 January 1840.
Overview of Burney's career
Frances Burney was a novelist, diarist and playwright. She wrote in all four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty volumes of journals and letters. She has gained critical respect in her own right, but also foreshadows such novelists of manners with a satirical bent as Jane Austen and Thackeray. She published her first novel, Evelina, anonymously in 1778. When the book's authorship was revealed, it brought her almost immediate fame due to its unique narrative and comic strengths. She followed it with Cecilia in 1782, Camilla in 1796 and The Wanderer in 1814. All Burney's novels explore the lives of English aristocrats, and satirise their social pretensions and personal foibles, with an eye to larger questions such as the politics of female identity. With one exception, Burney never succeeded in having her plays performed, largely due to objections from her father, who thought that publicity from such an effort would be damaging to her reputation. The exception was Edwy and Elgiva, which unfortunately was not well received by the public and closed after the first night's performance.
"Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy."
"In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla."
"I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow"
". . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense."
"A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation."
"There is no looking at a building here after seeing Italy."
". . . Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion."
"I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess."
"For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive."
"Indeed, the freedom with which Dr Johnson condemns whatever he disapproves is astonishing."
"To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind."
Over the course of Vital Organs’s often riotous pages, Edge examines everything from Adolf Hitler’s missing testicle (said, of course, to reside in the Albert Hall) to Fanny Burney’s severed breast, ...
Made in 1764, it shows Monsey – who was, according to the diaries of Fanny Burney, “a strange gross man” – in his finest pink satin suit lounging meditatively in a chair, head on hand, open book on his knee. he is a philosophical sort ... Now You See Us.
Estimated to sell for between US$100,000 and US$150,000, the book has numerous markings of key passages and themes that would later be central to Austen’s novels ...More ... More ... Similar markings appear in Austen’s copy of Fanny Burney’s Camilla ... .
This year for the first time in 15 years of the Times and Sunday TimesBest UK Beaches, we asked you, our readers, to nominate the nation’s best ... Donkeys are £5 a ride ... “The king bathes, and with great success,” wrote the royal chronicler Fanny Burney.
...The Rokeby Venus by the suffragette Mary Richardson; she tells us, too, about Fanny Burney’s mastectomy, an operation, the novelist describes in a letter of 1812, performed without anaesthetic.
before moving to Los Angeles in 2026 ... He was figure of fascination and became a celebrity — granted an audience with King George III, invited to Parliament and a guest at literary soirees hosted by novelist Fanny Burney and writer Samuel Johnson ... 1 ... 2.
before moving to Los Angeles in 2026 ... He was figure of fascination and became a celebrity — granted an audience with King George III, invited to Parliament and a guest at literary soirees hosted by novelist Fanny Burney and writer Samuel Johnson ... .
before moving to Los Angeles in 2026 ... He was figure of fascination and became a celebrity — granted an audience with King George III, invited to Parliament and a guest at literary soirees hosted by novelist Fanny Burney and writer Samuel Johnson.
He was figure of fascination and became a celebrity — granted an audience with King George III, invited to Parliament and a guest at literary soirees hosted by novelist Fanny Burney and writer Samuel...
RadhikaSeth... Most impressively, she aligned herself with the feminist bluestockings movement – with novelist Fanny Burney, writer Elizabeth Harcourt and philosopher Margaret Cavendish among her inner circle.She married her husband at first sight ... .
... who dressed up as knights and went to jousts to cause mayhem to the writer Fanny Burney describing a mastectomy she had in Paris without an anaesthetic.
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