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The Witlings and The Woman-Hater

The Witlings and The Woman-Hater

Frances Burney

Frances Burney Peter Sabor, Geoffrey Sill. Short Titles Burney, Complete Plays Burney, Camilla Burney, Cecilia Burney, Evelina Burney, The Wanderer Burney, Early Journals Burney, Journals and Letters Doody, Frances Burney OED The ...
Memoirs of Dr. Charles Burney, 1726-1769

Memoirs of Dr. Charles Burney, 1726-1769

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This edition reconstructs the fragments from Burney's first volume, free of Fanny Burney's interpolations and alterations. The resulting text is here published for the first time.
The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: ...

The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: ...

Fanny Burney

Volume II: 1787 Fanny Burney, Stewart Cooke Peter Sabor. [Burney, Frances] Cecilia [Burney, Frances] Evelina [Burney, Frances] The Wanderer CJL Davenport Delany Corr. Dictionary DL ED EJL Eton College Register GEC, Peerage Berg ...
Fanny Burney: Her Life

Fanny Burney: Her Life

Kate Chisholm

23 This miniature was commissioned by Charles from the portraitist Gervase Spencer. ... 29 In her notoriously unreliable Memoirs of her father, Fanny claimed that Charles's salary was £100, but Dr Scholes included in his The Great Dr Burney ...
The Present State of Music in France and Italy

The Present State of Music in France and Italy

Charles Burney

This 1771 account traces one of two journeys undertaken as part of Burney's research for his General History of Music.
The Complete Plays of Frances Burney

The Complete Plays of Frances Burney

Fanny Burney

This two-volume set of the comedies and tragedies of Frances Burney (1752-1840) reveals her remarkable, yet little-known, talent as a dramatist.
Fanny Burney

Fanny Burney

Judy Simons

The first comprehensive critical study of the work of Fanny Burney. Living in a world where male supremacy was unchallenged, Burney pioneered the 'women's novel' by presenting a distinctively female perspective in English fiction.
Journals and Letters

Journals and Letters

Fanny Burney

The versions of the texts in this collection are based on the manuscripts or printed sources that Burney herself approved.
Journals and Letters

Journals and Letters

Fanny Burney

The versions of the texts in this collection are based on the manuscripts or printed sources that Burney herself approved.
Fanny Burney: a biography

Fanny Burney: a biography

Claire Harman

A definitive portrait of the celebrated eighteenth-century author and satirist draws on more than seventy years of Burney's diaries and her observations of the leading writers, artists, philosophers, and personalities of her time to ...
The world of Fanny Burney

The world of Fanny Burney

Evelyn Farr

This book, which draws extensively on Fanny Burney's renowned diaries, provides an intimate portrait of a woman whose life was described by a contemporary as 'a vortex of pleasure, brilliancy, and wit'.
Camilla, a Picture of Youth: Easyread Edition

Camilla, a Picture of Youth: Easyread Edition

Fanny Burney

The novel illustrates the feelings that arise out of desire. It propounds on simple human emotions and comments on how the fire of craving destroys the individual. Burney delves into the theme that ambition destroys its possessor.
Evelina; or The history of a young lady's introduction to ...

Evelina; or The history of a young lady's introduction to ...

Fanny Burney

Fanny Burney, Evelina (fict.name.) in affluence ; and, therefore, the less her grandchild requires her assistance, the more gladly she will give it. I have but one thing more to add, from which, however, I can by no means recede : my word so ...
A Celebration of Frances Burney

A Celebration of Frances Burney

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The UK committee made the on-site arrangements: Jean Bowden, Elizabeth Burney Parker, Kate Chisholm and Karin Fernald worked long and hard to organize the event, helped on the North American side by Lucy Magruder. The papers ...
The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney

The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney

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Peter Sabor. ABBREVIATIONS Brief Frances Burney, Brief Reflections Relative to the Emigrant Reflections: French Clergy: Earnestly Submitted to the Humane Consideration of the Ladies of Great Britain, By the Author of Evelina and Cecilia  ...
Cecilia, or, Memoirs of an heiress, by the author of Evelina

Cecilia, or, Memoirs of an heiress, by the author of Evelina

Fanny Burney

Fanny Burney. " Then have I an unanswerable excuse," said Cecilia ; " for I remember that on the third day I saw her at your house." " O that's nothing at all to the purpose; you should have waited upon her, or sent her a ticket, just the same as if ...
The Complete Plays of Frances Burney: Comedies

The Complete Plays of Frances Burney: Comedies

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Fanny Burney, Stewart J. Cooke Peter Sabor, Geoffrey M. Sill. © Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited 1995 Introduction and notes © Peter Sabor 1995 ISBN 0-7735-1331-0 Legal deposit first quarter 1995 Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec ...
A General History of Music: From the Earliest Ages to the ...

A General History of Music: From the Earliest Ages to the ...

Charles Burney

ANTonio LoTT 1, the disciple of Legrenzi and master of Marcello, Galuppi, and Pescetti, was first organist, and then maestro di capella, of St. Mark's church at Venice, and one of the greatest men of his profession. To all the science and ...
A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the ...

A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the ...

Charles Burney

Antonio LoTT I, the disciple of Legrenzi and master of Marcello, Galuppi, and Pescetti, was first organist, and then maestro di capella, of St. Mark's church at Venice, and one of the greatest men of his profesion. To all the science and learned ...
Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to ...

Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to ...

J. Simons

J. Simons. Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Wool Judy Simons Principal Lecturer in English Sheffield City Polytechnic 22 MACMILLAN 22 © Judy Simons 1990 All rights reserved. No reproduction, Title.
A Knight of the Nets

A Knight of the Nets

Amelia E. Barr

... Catherine Parr Traill Charles A. Eastman Charles Dickens Charles Dudley Warner Charles Farrar Browne Charles Ives Charles Kingsley Charles Lathrop Pack Charles Whibley Charles Willing Beale Charlotte M. Braeme Charlotte M. Yonge ...

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