Evelina;or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World 1778 |
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"How came you---how happened it---what---what?"
"I-I only wrote, sir, for my own amusement, ---only in some odd idle hours."
"But your publishing---your printing---how was that?"
"That was only, sir, ---only because---"
I hesitated most abominably, not knowing how to tell him a long story...I was really hardly able to keep my countenance.
The "What!" was repeated, with so earnest a look, that, forced to say something, I stammeringly answered---
"I thought---sir---it would look very well in print!"
(Dialogue between King George III and Frances Burney 1785)
from Diaries and Letters of Madame d'Arblay II: 317 and quoted in Margaret Anne Doody's Frances Burney: The Life in the Works
King's College Library Archive Material Charles Burney Oh Yes, My Heart Belongs to Daddy
"All the Burney Children made a kind of religion of their father--he was not only a genius but faultless the best of fathers...But if they faltered in his service, affection could be withdrawn." Margaret Anne Doody in Frances Burney The Life in the Works
| Dr. Burney by Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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Author of My Being...
"His fear of any kind of censure is noticable, particularly in his somewhat underhanded arrangements that reviews of books should be done by friends in consultaion with himself."
Margaret Anne Doody in Frances Burney The Life in the Works
Full text of Evelina |
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Frances Burney 1752-1840
PBS short biography on Frances Burney
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| Frances Burney by Edward Franscesco Burney 1784-1785 |
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Don't call me Fanny.
Author of novels Evelina, Camilla,Cecilia, editor of her father's manuscripts, playwright, diarist, letter writer extraordinaire, breast cancer survivor, keeper of the robes, wife of a French refugee, daughter to a musicologist, sister to overachievers, friend of Hester Thrale and Dr. Samual Johnson, fleer of Napoleon. Born during the reign of George II and died during the reign of Victoria.
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| Allan Ramsay's Portrait of Queen Charlotte 1761-1762 |
PBS's "Frontline" on Queen Charlotte Second Keeper of the Robes
to Queen Charlotte (wife of George III)
"There was no tradition of patronage for talented females. The post was an honour but not honourary. She was expected to be on the job from six in the morning until twelve at night, constantly on call."
MA Doody in Frances Burney a Life in the Works
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