Fanny Burney

Author : Frances Burney
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 943 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Claire Harman
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007391899

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Fanny Burney: A biography (Text Only) by Claire Harman Pdf

‘Dazzling...full of special delights. Harman excels in the vivid presentation of scenes, the selection of detail...[a] marvellous and beautifully written book.’ Elspeth Barker, Independent on Sunday

Author : Frances Burney,Betty Rizzo
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Nigel Nicolson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111575499

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Fanny Burney by Nigel Nicolson Pdf

As the author of "Evelina" and "Cecilia", both of which created new dimensions for the novel, Fanny Burney is as well remembered for her memoirs of Johnson, her mastectomy and her account of the Battle of Waterloo. This portrait of Burney paints a picture of this forward-looking woman.

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1802
Category : England
ISBN : OXFORD:590185543

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Camilla, Or, A Picture of Youth by Fanny Burney Pdf

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1782
Category : England
ISBN : OXFORD:400445737

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Cecilia, Or, Memoirs of an Heiress by Fanny Burney Pdf

Author : Frances Burney
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 3775 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547814207

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The Complete Novels of Fanny Burney (Illustrated Edition) by Frances Burney Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: "Evelina" is the unacknowledged, but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat, thus raised in rural seclusion until her 17th year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns to navigate the complex layers of 18th-century society and earn the love of a distinguished nobleman. "Cecilia" is the tale about the trials and tribulations of a young upper class woman who must negotiate London society for the first time and who falls in love with a social superior. "Camilla" deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people: Camilla Tyrold, her sisters Lavinia and Eugenia, and their cousin, the beautiful Indiana Lynmere. Focal is the love affair between Camilla herself and her eligible suitor, Edgar Mandlebert. They have many hardships, however, caused by misunderstandings and mistakes, in the path of true love. "The Wanderer" is the historical tale with Gothic overtones set during the 1790s about a mysterious woman who attempts to support herself while hiding her identity. The novel focuses on the difficulties faced by women as they strive for economic and social independence. Frances Burney (1752-1840) was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. She is best known for her novels Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla and The Wanderer. Burney's novels explore the lives of English aristocrats, and satirize their social pretensions and personal foibles, with an eye to larger questions such as the politics of female identity. She has gained critical respect in her own right, but she also foreshadowed such novelists of manners with a satirical bent as Jane Austen and Thackeray.

Author : Kate Chisholm
Publisher : Random House
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446476314

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Fanny Burney by Kate Chisholm Pdf

Fanny Burney (1752-1840) is best known as the author of EVELINA, one of the most engaging novels of the eighteenth century. But for much of her long life, she was also an incomparable diarist, witnessing both the madness of George III and the young Queen Victoria's coronation. To read the journals she kept from the age of sixteen is to step back into Georgian England, meeting Dr Johnson, Garrick and Reynolds, being chased round the gardens of Kew Palace by the King. . . She was lady-in-writing to Queen Charlotte; she married an aristocratic emigre from the French Revolution and had her first and only child when she was forty-two; she was in Paris as Napoleon's armies marshalled against England, and in Brussels she heard the muffled guns, and watched the wounded being carried back from Waterloo. Kate Chisholm's delightful biography, incorporating the latest research and illustrate with unusual portraits and drawings, is lively, funny, shocking, informative and deeply moving; it paints a vivid portrait of a woman of great talent, against the changing background of England and France, a culture and an age.

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : Hansebooks
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 334804295X

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Evelina by Fanny Burney Pdf

Evelina - or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : Litres
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040621255

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The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 4 of 5) by Fanny Burney Pdf

Author : Fanny Burney,Leonard Benton Seeley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : HARVARD:HWHS8F

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Fanny Burney and Her Friends by Fanny Burney,Leonard Benton Seeley Pdf

Author : Fanny Burney,Leonard Benton Seeley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Friendship
ISBN : UCAL:B4711880

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Fanny Burney and Her Friends by Fanny Burney,Leonard Benton Seeley Pdf

Author : Austin Dobson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547036456

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Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay) by Austin Dobson Pdf

This biographical work presents wonderfully a memoir of Frances or Fanny Burney, later known as Madame D'Arblay, compiled by Henry Austin Dobson. Fanny Burney was an English satirical novelist, diarist, and playwright. She was best known for her most successful and famous works, Evelina (1778), Cecilia (1782), Camilla (1796). English poet, critic, and biographer, Henry Austin Dobson used several sources to create this memoir. Besides her novels and the period's literature, he used Memoirs of Dr. Burney by his daughter, Franny Burney, Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay edited by her niece, and The Early Diary of Frances Burney 1768-1778, edited by Annie Raine Ellis. Contents include: The Burney Family No. 1, St. Martin's Street The Story of "Evelina" The Successful Author "Cecilia"—and After The Queen's Dresser Half a Lifetime

Author : Fanny Burney,Stewart J. Cooke
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Lars E. Troide
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 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.