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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 ...
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

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.
The Churchill family in America

The Churchill family in America

G.A. Churchill

Sarah (Baker), 131, 307. Sarah (Bail), 60. Sarah ... Sarah (Cody), 330, 3-11. Sarah (Chane), 69. ... Sarah Lydia. 521. Sarah 31., 4'32, 419. Sarah M. (Chipmon ), 4'16. , Sarah M. (Cowiea) (1101 Sarah 11].), 313, 116-1, 611-5. Sarah M. ( Unrtio) ...
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.
Call Me a Female Politician, I Glory in the Name!: Women ...

Call Me a Female Politician, I Glory in the Name!: Women ...

Susan H. Graham

"For an excellent discussion of the meteoric rise and fall of The Wampanoag and Operatives''Journal, see Sarah C. O''Dowd, A Rhode Island Original: Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2004): 63-77. "For a more extensive discussion of Frances Harriet Whipple Green''s career, see Sarah C. O''Dowd, A Rhode Island Original: Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2004): 76 .
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'.
Harriet's Had Enough!

Harriet's Had Enough!

Elissa Haden Guest

Harriet the raccoon and her mother exchange mean words when Harriet refuses to pick up her toys, until an apology saves the day and everyone sits down to a spaghetti dinner.
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 ...
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 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  ...
Franklin and Harriet

Franklin and Harriet

Paulette Bourgeois

Franklin loves his toddler sister, Harriet, and enjoys spending time with her, but when Harriet claims Sam, his favorite stuffed animal, for herself, Franklin isn't sure how to handle it.
My First Fourth of July Book

My First Fourth of July Book

Harriet W. Hodgson

Harriet W. Hodgson. MY FIRST FOURTH OF JULY BOOK Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Hodgson, Harriet W. by Harriet W. Hodgson illustrated by Linda Hohag created by The Child's World ...
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 ...
Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography

Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography

Kate Culkin

Yeatman's statement is in “The Freedmen's Monument to Abraham Lincoln,” folder 2, Harriet Goodhue Hosmer Additional ... See also Harriet Sigerman, “ Laborers for Liberty, 1865–1890,” in No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United ...
Harriet Tubman Reader's Theater Script and Lesson

Harriet Tubman Reader's Theater Script and Lesson

Sarah Kartchner Clark

Improve reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice for performance.
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 ...
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet. Beecher. Stowe: A. Brief. Chronology. 1811 Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, seventh of nine children, is born on June 14 to the Reverend Lyman Beecher (a prominent Presbyterian minister) and Roxana Beecher of Litchfield, Connecticut  ...
Grandmother's Garden

Grandmother's Garden

May Brawley Hill

The writers Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Thaxter, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Anna Bartlett Warner are part of the story, as are the photographers Frances and Mary Allen, and Wallace Nutting.

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