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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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  ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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.
Frances Burney: A Literary Life

Frances Burney: A Literary Life

J. Thaddeus

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality (New York: Vantage, 1980) 1:87–9. The author of The Sylph is usually given as Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806), but Antonia Forster has found evidence that it might be by ...
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.
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'.
Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives

Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives

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See Catherine E. Moore, “'Ladies . For what Jane Austen might have drawn for her defense from Francis Bacon, Sir Philip Sidney, Clara Reeve, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, and Mary Robinson as well as ALB, see Jocelyn Harris, Memory , ...
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 ...
Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the ...

Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the ...

Felicity Nussbaum

Ellen Donkin, Getting into the Act: Women Playwrights in London, 1776–1829 ( New York: Routledge, 1995), counts 28 playwrights in this period, but more women writers' works did not reach the stage. 21. Frances Burney, The Witlings and the ...
Infinite Opportunities

Infinite Opportunities

Frances Page Cecelia Frances Page

Frances Page Cecelia Frances Page, Cecelia Frances Page. of peasant farmers in many areas have resulted in a steady drift of people, especially the young, to the cities to look for work. Manila, the present capital, is the most important city in  ...
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 Witlings and the Woman Hater

The Witlings and the Woman Hater

Geoffrey M Sill

Peter Sabor; associate editor (Tragedies) Stewart J. Cooke, contributing editor ( Comedies) Geoffrey M. Sill, 2 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1995). Frances Burney, Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth, ed. Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom  ...
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 ...
Frances Partridge: The Biography

Frances Partridge: The Biography

Anne Chisholm

Frances Partridge: the last survivor of the Bloomsbury group - the authorised biography. Frances Partridge was one of the great British diarists of the 20th century.
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.
History of New London, Connecticut: From the First Survey of ...

History of New London, Connecticut: From the First Survey of ...

Frances Manwaring Caulkins

MEMOIR OF FRANCES MANWARING CAULKINS. Frances Manwaring, daughter of Joshua and Fanny (Man waring) Caulkins, was born in New London, Conn., April 26, 1795, and died there February 3, 1869. Her ancestry, on the paternal ...
Meet Paula Danziger

Meet Paula Danziger

Frances E. Ruffin

Ruffin, Frances E. Meet Paula Danziger / Frances E. Ruffin. v. cm. — (About the author) Includes index. Contents: Writing with a funny bone — Family life - Books and comedy — College and a mentor — The students' teacher — Accidents ...
Bargain for Frances

Bargain for Frances

Anne Troy

Frances foils Thelma's plot to trick her out of a new china set. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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