Frances Burney

Author : Frances Burney
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141911050
Total Pages : 943 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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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
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cecilia, Or, Memoirs of an Heiress written by Fanny Burney and published by . This book was released on 1783 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Sabor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113982760X
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney written by Peter Sabor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evelina written by Fanny Burney and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julia Epstein
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299119447
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iron Pen written by Julia Epstein and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as a novelist and social satirist whose work anticipated Jane Austen's, Frances Burney (1752-1840) has also been recognized as an important writer in the history of feminist literature. Julia Epstein now offers a new interpretation of Burney and her work: that Burney's anger at the economic and social conditions of women emerges in her writing in moments of barely contained violence, and that her representations of violence and hostility provide a key to Burney's literary power. The Iron Pen situates Burney's writings within the sociopolitical context of the late eighteenth century and proposes a new approach to the development of the novel of manners. In addition, Epstein presents a comprehensive study of the reception of Burney's work from its original publication to the present. This study illuminates the history of popular book reviewing and of academic literary scholarship as political enterprises. Beginning with an examination of Burney's journals and letters, including an account of the mastectomy she underwent without anesthesia while in exile in Paris in 1811, Epstein then offers readings of Burney's four novels, paying close attention to the depiction of repressed anger and violence that characterizes all her work. The final section traces critics' responses to Burney's published writings from 1778, when her first novel, Evelina, appeared anonymously, to the present in readings informed by psychoanalysis, post-structuralism and feminist literary theory. Drawing upon the work of critics of eighteenth-century culture such as Mary Poovey, Ellen Pollak, Ruth Perry, and Margaret Doody, Epstein is successful in two ways: in combining an analysis of a set of texts with an analysis of a particular set of cultural assumptions and in her intentional underscoring of the complex nature of critical practice.

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Camilla, Or, A Picture of Youth written by Fanny Burney and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frances Burney
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1460403614
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Known Scribbler written by Frances Burney and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2002-09-19 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Burney’s journals and letters, composed between 1768 and 1839, contain a unique account of the creative, social, and commercial ambitions and achievements of an eighteenth-century female writer. Focusing on Burney’s literary life, this selection from her journals and correspondence combines Burney’s own accounts of the creation of her popular novels, her aspirations for her dramatic writings, and her reflections upon her letters and journals as literary productions in their own right. In addition to Burney’s letters and journal entries, this Broadview edition includes: selections from Burney’s Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy (1793) and Memoirs of Doctor Burney (1832); letters by family and friends about her literary activities; and contemporary reviews of The Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay.

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105904113
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wanderer – or, Female Difficulties written by Fanny Burney and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wanderer opens with a group of people fleeing the Terror. Among them is the protagonist, who refuses to identify herself. No one can place her socially-even her nationality and race are in doubt. As Burney scholar Margaret Doody explains, "the heroine thus arrives as a nameless Everywoman: both black and white, both Eastern and Western, both high and low, both English and French." She asks for help from the group, but because she knows no one, she is refused.

Author : Claire Harman
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007391897
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fanny Burney: A biography (Text Only) written by Claire Harman and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Dazzling...full of special delights. Harman excels in the vivid presentation of scenes, the selection of detail...[a] marvellous and beautifully written book.’ Elspeth Barker, Independent on Sunday

Author : Gina Fattore
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1945551747
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spinster Diaries written by Gina Fattore and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our heroine, a moderately successful TV writer in L.A., wants her life to be as sunny and perfect as a Hollywood rom-com: a cool job, a wacky best friend, and lots of age-appropriate hot guys just dying to date her. Instead, she’s a self-described spinster who is swimming in anxiety and just might have a tiny little brain tumor. So she turns to an unlikely source for inspiration: the eighteenth-century novelist and diarist Frances Burney, who pretty much invented the chick-lit novel. A semi-autobiographical unromantic comedy, The Spinster Diaries is a laugh-out-loud satire of both the TV business and the well-worn conventions of chick lit—as well as the true tale of the forgotten writer who inspired Jane Austen to greatness. It's an endearing and refreshingly honest testament to how one person’s life can reach out across the centuries to touch another’s.