Author: Fanny Burney
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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A scholarly edition of journals and letters by Fanny Burney. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
Author: Frances Burney
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141911050
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 945
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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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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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A scholarly edition of journals and letters by Fanny Burney. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
Author: Fanny Burney
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Languages : en
Pages : 529
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Author: Fanny Burney
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Category : Letters
Languages : en
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Author: Fanny Burney
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Author: Fanny Burney
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Author: Fanny Burney
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Languages : en
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Author: Frances Burney
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773561021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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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: Fanny Burney
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Languages : en
Pages : 624
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