Early Journals And Letters Of Fanny Burney

Author : Frances Burney,Betty Rizzo
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773561021

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Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 4 by Frances Burney,Betty Rizzo Pdf

Volume IV of The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, covering the years 1780-1781, will be of particular interest to students of Burney as it marks the young author's introduction into the world following the astonishing success of her novel Evelina (1778) and includes her visits to Streatham and her encounters with Hester and Henry Thrale and Dr Johnson. It was an exciting period in her life, which she managed to enjoy despite struggling to repeat her first success while avoiding the often unwelcome attention it brought. But it was also a difficult period in her family life as she dealt with jealous interference by her stepmother, the courtship of her sister Susan by a man she considered untrustworthy, and the misbehaviour of her brothers. Burney's enthusiasm makes the most of her experiences and she describes characters and scenes with all the genius displayed in her novels. Her descriptions contain the four great attributes that distinguish her novels: brilliant handling of detail, total and full recall of conversations characteristic of the speaker, sensibility and empathy for others, and great relish for the ridiculous wherever it occurred.

Author : Frances Burney,Betty Rizzo
Publisher : MQUP
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0773505296

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Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 4 by Frances Burney,Betty Rizzo Pdf

Burney's enthusiasm makes the most of her experiences and she describes characters and scenes with all the genius displayed in her novels. Her descriptions contain the four great attributes that distinguish her novels: brilliant handling of detail, total and full recall of conversations characteristic of the speaker, sensibility and empathy for others, and great relish for the ridiculous wherever it occurred.

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780773505391

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Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney by Fanny Burney Pdf

Stewart J. Cooke teaches English at Dawson College --Book Jacket.

Author : Fanny Burney,Stewart J. Cooke
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994-06
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780773511903

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Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney by Fanny Burney,Stewart J. Cooke Pdf

This third of 12 projected volumes of a critical edition of English novelist Burney's (1752-1840) journals and letters covers the period from January 1778 to December 1779, the period following the publication of Evelina, or, a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, a universally acclaimed novel that led admirers to place Burney in the ranks of Fielding and Richardson. It reveals Burney's striking transformation to a "celebrity" as she is welcomed into London's literary society, and her mixed delight and terror at this reception. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : LCCN:cn86094863

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The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney: 1774-1777 by Fanny Burney Pdf

Author : Frances Burney
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 943 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141911052

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Journals and Letters by Frances Burney Pdf

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. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and her years interned in France with her husband Alexandre d'Arblay during the Napoleonic Wars, she captured the changing times around her, creating brilliantly comic and candid portraits of those she encountered - including the 'mad' King George, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick and a charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. She also describes, in her most moving piece, undergoing a mastectomy at fifty-nine without anaesthetic. Whether a carefree young girl or a mature woman, Fanny Burney's forthright, intimate and wickedly perceptive voice brings her world powerfully to life.

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9780773505384

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Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney by Fanny Burney Pdf

Stewart J. Cooke teaches English at Dawson College --Book Jacket.

Author : Lars E. Troide,Stewart J. Cooke
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773586765

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The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney: Volume V, 1782-1783 by Lars E. Troide,Stewart J. Cooke Pdf

Volume V of The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney covers a period of significant gains and losses for the young writer. Professionally, Burney consolidated her reputation as England's premier novelist with the publication of Cecilia. Through a mutual friendship she gained an appointment as Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, a position that provided both financial security and an insider's view to life at Court. Burney's professional success during these years was balanced by countless personal setbacks. Deprived of the companionship of her favourite sister following her sister's marriage, she also lost the friendship of Hester Lynch Thrale who grew increasingly distant during her romantic attachment to Gabriel Piozzi (whom she married in 1784). The death of her dear friend and mentor Samuel Crisp causes Burney deep sadness, and her emotional turmoil is further exacerbated by her introduction to George Owen Cambridge, a young clergyman to whom she is clearly attracted but who refuses to either declare himself to her, or leave her in peace. Throughout these trials and triumphs, Burney - an artist with an acute sense of the complexities and vagaries of human nature - never ceases to fix her lens on the fashions and follies of English society as they emerge in the manners of her time.

Author : Lars E. Troide
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773585102

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Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 2 by Lars E. Troide Pdf

The years 1774-77 saw Fanny Burney's increasing occupation with Evelina, which she finally completed and presented to the publisher Thomas Lowndes. Like her novel, the journals and letters of this period reveal her artistic powers, as she continues to sketch characters with economy and precision and create convincing narratives out of the events of her life. Among the more memorable figures she meets at her father's London house are the "noble savage" Omai, the first Tahitian brought back to England; the famed explorer James "Abyssinian" Bruce, who returned from Africa with tales of natives who ate raw flesh; and Prince Aleksei Orlov of Russia, who had Czar Peter III murdered in order to permit Peter's wife, Catherine "the Great," to ascend the throne. Other notable figures include Dr Samuel Johnson and the great singer Lucrezia Agujari, admired by Mozart. Also in these pages, the usually diffident Miss Burney takes charge of her destiny by rebuffing her suitor Thomas Barlow, who has wealth, education, good looks, and the vehement approval of most of her family, but whom she finds a total bore. The journals and letters of Fanny Burney are an invaluable source for anyone interested in the social and literary history of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England. Lars Troide has supported the texts with thorough and detailed annotations.

Author : Lars E. Troide,Steward J. Cooke
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773585119

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Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 3 by Lars E. Troide,Steward J. Cooke Pdf

At the beginning of 1778 twenty-five-year-old Fanny Burney was an unknown. By year's end, however, she had emerged as the author of Evelina, or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World, a universally acclaimed novel which admirers ranked with the works of Fielding and Richardson. This third of twelve projected volumes of a critical edition of Burney's journals and letters covers the period from January 1778 to December 1779. It reveals Burney's striking transformation to a "celebrity" as she is welcomed into London's literary society, and her mixed delight and terror at this reception. As Burney becomes a regular at the Streatham Park home of Henry and Hester Thrale, she is befriended by another regular visitor, Samuel Johnson, and given the opportunity to observe and record the playful and affectionate side of Johnson's character, a side largely missed by Boswell. Burney is urged by the Streathamites to write a comedy for the London stage and responds with "The Witlings," a satiric portrait of London's bluestockings. Alarmed by the prospect of disapproval from the powerful bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu, Burney's father and her friend Samuel Crisp dissuade her from releasing the piece. Her disappointment is eased by the whirling social life that she enjoys in the company of the Thrales at Streatham and at Brighton, on which she comments with characteristic perception and humour. Fanny Burney's journals and letters are an invaluable source for the social and literary history of her time, and are justly regarded as literature in their own right. All volumes in this series will be of specific interest to scholars in literary criticism, feminist studies, and music and social history.

Author : Lars E. Troide
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773585096

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Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 1 by Lars E. Troide Pdf

Volume One is the first of a projected twelve-volume edition of Burney's early journals and letters and covers the years 1768-73. This edition reproduces her earliest journals in their original form, replacing omitted and altered passages. It shows her development as an artist and contains typically vivid sketches of her family, friends, and acquaintances in London and the country. Further volumes will cover the so-called "Streatham Years" (1778-86, 4 vols.) and "Court Years" (1786-91, 6 vols.). These will carry her through the period of her greatest fame as the author of the novels Evelina (1778) and Cecilia (1782), and will end with her exit from the Court of King George III and Queen Charlotte after five exhausting years of service to the Queen as Second Keeper of the Robes. Eighteenth-century scholars generally regard Fanny's early journals as her freshest and most appealing. This edition complements Joyce Hemlow's Oxford edition of Burney's letters and journals from 1791 to 1840 (12 vols., Oxford, 1972-84). While the early journals have been printed before, Lars Troide's edition will provide the first full text of Fanny's early journals, accompanied by thorough and accurate annotations which fully explicate the context in which the journals were written.

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 019812581X

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The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney: The Streatham years, part 1, 1778-1799 by Fanny Burney Pdf

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : 6613841722

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1774-1777 by Fanny Burney Pdf

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : London (England)
ISBN : LCCN:lc86023759

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The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney: 1774-1777 by Fanny Burney Pdf

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Courts and courtiers
ISBN : 9780199658114

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The Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: 1784-1786 by Fanny Burney Pdf

Presents material not included in either The early journals and letters of Fanny Burney (covering 1768-1781) or The court journals and letters of Frances Burney (covering 1786-1791), written at the height of her fame as a novelist.