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Published on: 2001-08-21
Released on: 2001-08-21
Original language: English

Claire Harman's full-scale biography of Fanny Burney, the first literary woman novelist and a true child of eighteenth-century England and the Enlightenment, is rich with insights and pleasures as it brings us into the extraordinary life (1752-1840) of the woman Virginia Woolf called ìthe mother of English fiction.We are present at Mrs. Thrale's dinner party when the twenty-six-year-old Fanny has the incomparable thrill of hearing Dr. Johnson himself admiringly acknowledge her authorship of Evelina, her first novel, anonymously published for fear of upsetting her adored father, and now the talk of the town. We see her growing up, daughter of the charming and gifted musician and teacher Dr. Charles Burney, who was the very embodiment of a new class: talented, energized, self-educated, self-made, self-conscious, socially ambitious and easily endearing himself to aristocratic patrons.We see Fanny partly enjoying, partly rejecting the celebrity engendered by Evelina, and four years later by Cecilia ("If you will be an author and a wit," says Mrs. Thrale, "you must take the consequences"). And we see her mingling with the most famous men and women of the time, not only Dr. Johnson but Joshua Reynolds, Sheridan, David Garrick, Mrs. Siddons, Horace Walpole and, later, Chateaubriand and Madame de StaÎl.For five years, during the time of George III's madness, Fanny Burney held a position in the Royal Household as Second Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte. For her father, Fanny's going to court was like going to heaven, but for Fanny it was more an incarceration. Her journals, published posthumously in 1842, gave her some solace. She saw herself as an eavesdropper. Dr. Johnson wryly called her "a spy." Her marriage at forty-one to a penniless Catholic exile, Alexandre d'Arblay, resulted in trans-Channel crossings that left her stranded for almost a decade in Napoleon's France, and then, after a dramatic flight from Paris, trapped in Brussels on the eve of Waterloo.Claire Harman's biography of Fanny Burney is as lively as it is meticulously researched and authoritative. It gives us the woman, her world and the early-blooming artist whose acute grasp of social nuance, gift for satire, drama and skillful play among large casts of characters won her comparison with the best of Smollett, Richardson and Fielding, the admiration of Jane Austen and Lord Byron and a secure place in the pantheon of the English novel. George III king of Great Britain Britannica.com George III was the son of Frederick Louis prince of Wales and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. From his parents and their entourage the young George imbibed an ... MOS - Charles Burney Storico della musica nellEuropa del ... Charles Burney: a Biography (April 07 1726 - April 12 1814) Charles Burney was an English musical historian and father of author Fanny Burney. Evelina - Wikipedia Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World is a novel written by English author Fanny Burney and first published in 1778. Although published ... Short Story Criticism Gale Literature Collections Each of the nearly 150 volumes in this series profiles approximately three to six writers of short fiction from all time periods and all parts of the world. Ebook Catalog Girlebooks We publish free ebooks by women authors available in several ebook formats for your iPad iPhone Kindle Nook or other ereader. Much more than an ebook Jane Austen's Biography: Life (1775-1817) and Family Return to Jane Austen info page. Childhood and early creative work (Steventon 1775-). Jane Austen's Brothers and Sister. Austen family genealogical charts Reviews History Today Rome may be known as the City of Seven Hills but the average ancient Roman would have been hard pressed to name them. In fact the city has more than a dozen. Ravinder Bhogal - Wikipedia Ravinder Bhogal is a British chef food writer and stylist. She rose to fame when she was named by Gordon Ramsay as his new Fanny Cradock on The F Word. A(lec) D(erwent) Hope Biography - BookRags.com This Biography consists of approximately 24 pages of information about the life of A(lec) D(erwent) Hope. Reading List: Literary Biographies - The New York Times ... A list of literary biographies reviewed by The New York Times Book Review since Dec. 31 2000.
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