Early Journals And Letters Of Fanny Burney Volume 3

Author : Lars E. Troide
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773585117
Total Pages : 500 pages
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Download or read book Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 3 written by Lars E. Troide and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994-06-29 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of 1778 twenty-five-year-old Fanny Burney was an unknown. By year's end, however, she had emerged as the author of Evelina, or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World, a universally acclaimed novel which admirers ranked with the works of Fielding and Richardson. This third of twelve projected volumes of a critical edition of Burney's journals and letters covers the period from January 1778 to December 1779. It reveals Burney's striking transformation to a "celebrity" as she is welcomed into London's literary society, and her mixed delight and terror at this reception. As Burney becomes a regular at the Streatham Park home of Henry and Hester Thrale, she is befriended by another regular visitor, Samuel Johnson, and given the opportunity to observe and record the playful and affectionate side of Johnson's character, a side largely missed by Boswell. Burney is urged by the Streathamites to write a comedy for the London stage and responds with "The Witlings," a satiric portrait of London's bluestockings. Alarmed by the prospect of disapproval from the powerful bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu, Burney's father and her friend Samuel Crisp dissuade her from releasing the piece. Her disappointment is eased by the whirling social life that she enjoys in the company of the Thrales at Streatham and at Brighton, on which she comments with characteristic perception and humour. Fanny Burney's journals and letters are an invaluable source for the social and literary history of her time, and are justly regarded as literature in their own right. All volumes in this series will be of specific interest to scholars in literary criticism, feminist studies, and music and social history.

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Author : Frances Burney
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773561021
Total Pages : 590 pages
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Download or read book Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 4 written by Frances Burney and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-05-21 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume IV of The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, covering the years 1780-1781, will be of particular interest to students of Burney as it marks the young author's introduction into the world following the astonishing success of her novel Evelina (1778) and includes her visits to Streatham and her encounters with Hester and Henry Thrale and Dr Johnson. It was an exciting period in her life, which she managed to enjoy despite struggling to repeat her first success while avoiding the often unwelcome attention it brought. But it was also a difficult period in her family life as she dealt with jealous interference by her stepmother, the courtship of her sister Susan by a man she considered untrustworthy, and the misbehaviour of her brothers. Burney's enthusiasm makes the most of her experiences and she describes characters and scenes with all the genius displayed in her novels. Her descriptions contain the four great attributes that distinguish her novels: brilliant handling of detail, total and full recall of conversations characteristic of the speaker, sensibility and empathy for others, and great relish for the ridiculous wherever it occurred.

Author : Frances Burney
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141911050
Total Pages : 943 pages
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Download or read book Journals and Letters written by Frances Burney and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and her years interned in France with her husband Alexandre d'Arblay during the Napoleonic Wars, she captured the changing times around her, creating brilliantly comic and candid portraits of those she encountered - including the 'mad' King George, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick and a charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. She also describes, in her most moving piece, undergoing a mastectomy at fifty-nine without anaesthetic. Whether a carefree young girl or a mature woman, Fanny Burney's forthright, intimate and wickedly perceptive voice brings her world powerfully to life.

Author : Fanny Burney
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ISBN 13 : 9780198125815
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney: The Streatham years, part 1, 1778-1799 written by Fanny Burney and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773511903
Total Pages : 501 pages
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Download or read book Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney written by Fanny Burney and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third of 12 projected volumes of a critical edition of English novelist Burney's (1752-1840) journals and letters covers the period from January 1778 to December 1779, the period following the publication of Evelina, or, a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, a universally acclaimed novel that led admirers to place Burney in the ranks of Fielding and Richardson. It reveals Burney's striking transformation to a "celebrity" as she is welcomed into London's literary society, and her mixed delight and terror at this reception. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773505393
Total Pages : 337 pages
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Download or read book Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney written by Fanny Burney and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stewart J. Cooke teaches English at Dawson College --Book Jacket.

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773505423
Total Pages : 527 pages
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Download or read book The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney written by Fanny Burney and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stewart J. Cooke teaches English at Dawson College --Book Jacket.

Author : Fanny Burney
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ISBN 13 : 9780773505421
Total Pages : 353 pages
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Download or read book The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney written by Fanny Burney and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781722416072
Total Pages : 528 pages
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Download or read book The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay - Volume 3 written by Fanny Burney and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay - Volume 3 by Fanny Burney THE FRENCH POLITICAL EMIGRANTS: MISS BURNEY MARRIES M. D'ARBLAY. [The following section must be pronounced, from the historical point of view, one of the most valuable in the " Diary." It gives us authentic glimpses of some of the actors in that great Revolution, "the Death-Birth of a new order," which was getting itself transacted, with such terrible accompaniments, across the channel. The refugees with whom Fanny grew acquainted, and who formed the little colony at juniper Hall, near Dorking, were not the men of the first emigration-princes and nobles who fled their country, like cowards, as soon as they found themselves in danger, and reentered it like traitors, in the van of a foreign invasion. Not such were the inmates of Juniper Hall. These were constitutional monarchists, men who had taken part with the people in the early stage of the Revolution, who had been instrumental in making the Constitution, and who had sought safety in flight only when the Constitution was crushed and the monarchy abolished by the triumph of the extreme party. To the grands seigneurs of the first emigration, these constitutional royalists, were scarcely less detestable than the jacobins themselves. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.