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
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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)
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"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.