FRANCES "FANNY" BURNEY
Frances Burney by Edward Francis Burney, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
AKA: Madam D'Arblay, Fanny Burney
Dates: 1752-1840
Nationality: British/English
Literary Periods:
Eighteenth Century, 1700-1799
Nineteenth Century, 1800-1899
Romantic Period, 1780-1837
Literary Movements:
Romanticism 1780-1837
MORE BIOGRAPHY
Frances Burney: A Literary Life by Call Number: Miller Library PR3316.A4 Z795 2000
Frances Burney: The Life in the Works by Call Number: Miller Library PR3316.A4 Z63 1988
FANNY BURNEY MEETS JERRY SPRINGER
A preview for Magis Theatre Company's production of The Whitlings in 2008
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"Frances Burney (1752-1840), wrote several popular novels in the late eighteenth century. Her characterizations of women and society influenced a number of subsequent authors, including Jane Austen (1775-1817) and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)." -Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO)
REFERENCE & BACKGROUND INFORMATION
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Essay on the life and works of Frances (Fanny) Burney, complete works and suggested reading bibliographies
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RESEARCH & CRITICISM
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- Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new window A database of English-language literature, containing thousands of full-text works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, as well as journals, author biographies, bibliographies, criticism, and reference resources.
- Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.3 Issue 4, 1991: Evelina [JOURNAL]This special issue of the journal is devoted to Evelina
The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney (2007) by
Frances Burney (1752-1840) was the most successful female novelist of the eighteenth century. Her first novel Evelina was a publishing sensation; her follow-up novels Cecilia and Camilla were regarded as among the best fiction of the time and were much admired by Jane Austen. Burney's life was equally remarkable: a protegee of Samuel Johnson, lady-in-waiting at the court of George III, later wife of an emigre aristocrat and stranded in France during the Napoleonic Wars, she lived on into the reign of Queen Victoria. Her journals and letters are now widely read as a rich source of information about the Court, social conditions and cultural changes over her long lifetime. This Companion is the first volume to cover all her works, including her novels, plays, journals and letters, in a comprehensive and accessible way. It also includes discussion of her critical reputation, and a guide to further reading.
Call Number: Miller PR3316.A4 Z5855 2007ISBN: 9780521850346
PRIMARY SOURCES: TEXTS ONLINE
Illustration by Henry Singleton, 1766-1839 (oil on canvas).
DocumentType: Painting Source: Bridgeman Art Library Database: Ecco
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new windowTo see actual images of Burney's texts, choose the "Browse Authors" button at the top of the screen and look for Burney, Fanny.
- Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new windowSee html, full-text transcriptions of Burney's works. Texts available full-text online include:
Evelina
Camilla
Cecilia
The Wanderer
PRIMARY SOURCES: ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS
"Burney is the first important novelist whose drafts of fiction survive in any quantity. The Burneys were all prolific letter writers and diary keepers, and every major library houses some Burney material. Some letters and other papers remain in private hands." -DLB You will find the major collections of Burneyana listed below.
- The Berg Collection at the New York Public LibraryIncludes "drafts of parts of all the novels save The Wanderer (of which no draft has yet come to light). The Berg Collection also includes the manuscripts of the plays, as well as verses, notes for unwritten novels, and a great number of diaries and letters by Burney and her family." -DLB
- The Barrett Collection in the British Library (Egerton 3690-3708)Includes "the draft of an unpublished introduction to Cecilia and early drafts of Camilla,
as well as numerous letters and other papers" -DLB
PRIMARY SOURCES: NEWSPAPERS
- 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new window A large digital collection of early English news media, consisting of about 1,270 titles and one million pages gathered by the Reverend Carles Burney in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- British Periodicals Collections This link opens in a new window Scanned versions of the full texts of over 500 British periodicals dating from the 17th century to the early 20th, with coverage of topics such as literature, science, and the arts.
- Times Digital Archive 1785-2014 This link opens in a new window The Times Digital Archive is a full-image online archive of The Times [London] from 1785-2014. The text within the images is fully searchable at the article level.