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Author : Roger H. Lonsdale
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Total Pages : 1340 pages
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Download or read book The Literary Career of Dr. Charles Burney (1726-1814) written by Roger H. Lonsdale and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger H. Lonsdale
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Download or read book The Literary Career of Dr. Charles Burney (1726-1814) written by Roger H. Lonsdale and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Burney
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney: 1751-1784 written by Charles Burney and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorous, witty, and candid, these letters paint a fascinating portrait of Dr. Charles Burney (1726-1814), father of the novelist and journal-writer Fanny Burney, and distinguished author of the four-volume History of Music. Providing insight into the musical world of Burney's day, the letters recount his travels on the Continent as he gathered information for the History, and describe his colorful role as the center of one of the liveliest literary cultural circles of the mid-eighteenth century, of which such noted figures as Johnson, Burke, Reynolds, Garrick, and the Blue Stocking Circle were members.
Author : Fanny Burney
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Dr. Burney, Arranged from His Own Manuscripts, from Family Papers, and from Personal Recollections written by Fanny Burney and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Lonsdale
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
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Download or read book Dr. Charles Burney written by Roger Lonsdale and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fanny Burney
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ISBN 13 : 9781847022332
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Doctor Burney (Vol. 3 of 3) written by Fanny Burney and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Burney (1752-1840), also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. Her first novel, Evelina, was published anonymously in 1778 but once her identity as the author was discovered it brought her immediate fame as the work was widely admired for its unique narrative and comic strengths. Of her four novels it was her most successful and remains the best regarded. Her second novel was Cecilia, set in 1779 and published in 1782 with the subtitle Memoirs of an Heiress, which was also highly successful with over 50 editions. Her later novels were Camilla (1796), and The Wanderer (1814) which, like their predecessors, explore the lives of English aristocrats, satirising their social pretensions and personal foibles. Burney's wit and talent for caricature were widely acknowledged by the literary figures of her day including Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke and David Garrick. In addition to her writing career, Burney served as 'Keeper of the Robes' to Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III, with whom she developed a warm relationship. In 1793 she married French emigre artillery officer, General Alexandre d'Arblay, with whom she had a son the following year. From 1797-1801 she wrote three plays, all comedies, that remained unpublished in her lifetime, and many volumes of her letters and journals, including those covering her time at court, have been published posthumously. After her husband's death Burney paid tribute to her father, Charles Burney (1726-1814), a music historian, composer and musician, by gathering his papers and publishing in 1832, in three volumes, her Memoirs of Doctor Burney. Written in a panegyric style, praising her father's accomplishments and character, she drew upon many of her own personal writings from many years earlier. In her bid to protect her father and the family's reputation she destroyed evidence of facts that were painful or unflatttering and was criticised by contemporaries, and later by historians, for doing so. Volume 3 of 3.
Author : Fanny Burney
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ISBN 13 : 9781847020505
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Doctor Burney (Vol. 1 of 3) written by Fanny Burney and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Burney (1752-1840), also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. Her first novel, Evelina, was published anonymously in 1778 but once her identity as the author was discovered it brought her immediate fame as the work was widely admired for its unique narrative and comic strengths. Of her four novels it was her most successful and remains the best regarded. Her second novel was Cecilia, set in 1779 and published in 1782 with the subtitle Memoirs of an Heiress, which was also highly successful with over 50 editions. Her later novels were Camilla (1796), and The Wanderer (1814) which, like their predecessors, explore the lives of English aristocrats, satirising their social pretensions and personal foibles. Burney's wit and talent for caricature were widely acknowledged by the literary figures of her day including Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke and David Garrick. In addition to her writing career, Burney served as 'Keeper of the Robes' to Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III, with whom she developed a warm relationship. In 1793 she married French emigre artillery officer, General Alexandre d'Arblay, with whom she had a son the following year. From 1797-1801 she wrote three plays, all comedies, that remained unpublished in her lifetime, and many volumes of her letters and journals, including those covering her time at court, have been published posthumously. After her husband's death Burney paid tribute to her father, Charles Burney (1726-1814), a music historian, composer and musician, by gathering his papers and publishing in 1832, in three volumes, her Memoirs of Doctor Burney. Written in a panegyric style, praising her father's accomplishments and character, she drew upon many of her own personal writings from many years earlier. In her bid to protect her father and the family's reputation she destroyed evidence of facts that were painful or unflatttering and was criticised by contemporaries, and later by historians, for doing so. Volume 1 of 3.
Author : Fanny Burney
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ISBN 13 : 9781847021243
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (212 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Doctor Burney, (Vol. 2 of 3) written by Fanny Burney and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Burney (1752-1840), also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. Her first novel, Evelina, was published anonymously in 1778 but once her identity as the author was discovered it brought her immediate fame as the work was widely admired for its unique narrative and comic strengths. Of her four novels it was her most successful and remains the best regarded. Her second novel was Cecilia, set in 1779 and published in 1782 with the subtitle Memoirs of an Heiress, which was also highly successful with over 50 editions. Her later novels were Camilla (1796), and The Wanderer (1814) which, like their predecessors, explore the lives of English aristocrats, satirising their social pretensions and personal foibles. Burney's wit and talent for caricature were widely acknowledged by the literary figures of her day including Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke and David Garrick. In addition to her writing career, Burney served as 'Keeper of the Robes' to Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III, with whom she developed a warm relationship. In 1793 she married French emigre artillery officer, General Alexandre d'Arblay, with whom she had a son the following year. From 1797-1801 she wrote three plays, all comedies, that remained unpublished in her lifetime, and many volumes of her letters and journals, including those covering her time at court, have been published posthumously. After her husband's death Burney paid tribute to her father, Charles Burney (1726-1814), a music historian, composer and musician, by gathering his papers and publishing in 1832, in three volumes, her Memoirs of Doctor Burney. Written in a panegyric style, praising her father's accomplishments and character, she drew upon many of her own personal writings from many years earlier. In her bid to protect her father and the family's reputation she destroyed evidence of facts that were painful or unflatttering and was criticised by contemporaries, and later by historians, for doing so. Volume 2 of 3.
Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : Golden Book
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1 pages
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Download or read book The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay written by Fanny Burney and published by Golden Book. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By his second wife, Elizabeth Allen, whom he married in 1767, Dr. Burney had two children--a son, Richard Thomas, and a daughter, Sarah Harriet. The latter followed the career of her famous half-sister, and acquired some distinction as a novelist. Cousins Richard and Edward were younger sons of Uncle Richard Burney, of Worcester. Edward was successful as an artist, especially as a book- illustrator. He painted the portrait of Fanny Burney, a reproduction of which forms the frontispiece to the present volume. Some of his work may be seen in the South Kensington Museum. Chesington, where we shall presently find Fanny on a visit to Mr. Crisp, was an old roomy mansion, standing in the midst of a lonely common in Surrey, between Kingston and Epsom. It had belonged to Mr. Crisp's friend, Christopher Hamilton, and on his death became the property of his unmarried sister, Mrs. Sarah Hamilton, who, being in poor circumstances, let part of the house to a farmer, and took boarders. Of the latter, Mr. Crisp was the most constant, boarding at Chesington for nearly twenty years, and dying there in 1783. Kitty Cooke, whose name occurs in the “Diary,” was the niece of Mrs. Hamilton, and resided with her at Chesington. Mrs. Sophia Gast, whom we find a frequent visitor there, was the sister of Mr. Crisp, and resided at Burford, in Oxfordshire.
Author : Fanny Burney
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ISBN 13 : 9781108013741
Total Pages : 1226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Doctor Burney 3 Volume Set written by Fanny Burney and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emily Hahn
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Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A Degree of Prudery written by Emily Hahn and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Frances Burney (1752-1840), English novelist and playwright. Frances Burney (13 June 1752 - 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and after her marriage as Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in Lynn Regis, now King's Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to the musician and music historian Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814) and his first wife, Esther Sleepe Burney (1725-1762). The third of six children, she was self-educated and began writing what she called her "scribblings" at the age of ten. In 1793, aged 41, she married a French exile, General Alexandre D'Arblay. Their only son, Alexander, was born in 1794. After a lengthy writing career, and travels during which she was stranded in France by warfare for more than ten years, she settled in Bath, England, where she died on 6 January 1840.
Author : Frances Burney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108013716
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Doctor Burney written by Frances Burney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novelist Fanny Burney's embellished version of the memoirs of her father; the music historian Charles Burney (1726-1814).
Author : Devoney Looser
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801887054
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 written by Devoney Looser and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
Author : Lars E. Troide
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773585095
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 1 written by Lars E. Troide and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988-05-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume One is the first of a projected twelve-volume edition of Burney's early journals and letters and covers the years 1768-73. This edition reproduces her earliest journals in their original form, replacing omitted and altered passages. It shows her development as an artist and contains typically vivid sketches of her family, friends, and acquaintances in London and the country. Further volumes will cover the so-called "Streatham Years" (1778-86, 4 vols.) and "Court Years" (1786-91, 6 vols.). These will carry her through the period of her greatest fame as the author of the novels Evelina (1778) and Cecilia (1782), and will end with her exit from the Court of King George III and Queen Charlotte after five exhausting years of service to the Queen as Second Keeper of the Robes. Eighteenth-century scholars generally regard Fanny's early journals as her freshest and most appealing. This edition complements Joyce Hemlow's Oxford edition of Burney's letters and journals from 1791 to 1840 (12 vols., Oxford, 1972-84). While the early journals have been printed before, Lars Troide's edition will provide the first full text of Fanny's early journals, accompanied by thorough and accurate annotations which fully explicate the context in which the journals were written.
Author : Roger Lonsdale
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Doctor Charles Burney written by Roger Lonsdale and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105904113
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (59 download)
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 : Charles Burney
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A General History of Music written by Charles Burney and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
