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Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… 1970): ‘her conversation the best, of any lady with whom I ever had the happiness to be acquainted’, p. 978; Frances Burney, The Journals and Letters of Frances Burney (Madame D’Arblay), ed. Joyce Hemlow, 12 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), IV, p. 107. Like other members of … and to further the career of her sons and later grandsons. Thus she (unsuccessfully) tried to get Dr Charles Burney appointed as organist in the Queen’s Band in 1782 and collected subscriptions for Frances Burney’s novel Camilla …
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
… a year later. In 1779 Cavendish anonymously published The Sylph , an epistolary novel that owes a debt to Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778); Burney was initially thought to have been the author. The Sylph tells of an ingénue’s entry into high society as the …
Correspondence | Fashion | Fiction | Gambling | Politics | Suicide
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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
Assemblies | Bluestockings | Correspondence | Court | Ireland | Propriety | Women
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Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis [ Aristocracy ]
… tombe de Richardson , qu’elle considère comme le seul auteur de ‘romans véritablement moraux’; 11 elle rencontre Fanny Burney dont elle admire Evelina et Cecilia et le dramaturge irlandais Richard Brinsley Sheridan . Invitée par Burke, la … est devenue un sévère handicap. Presque aucune des personnalités qui l’avaient reçue ne la fréquente plus désormais. Burney se détourne d’elle ; Walpole dénigre avec véhémence ‘that scribbling trollop Mme de Sillery’ (Bertaud 95). Ardent … contraintes de fuir le désordre et la monstruosité anarchistes. Chez Hannah More , Charlotte Smith ou Frances Burney , le soutien aux émigrés français sert le nationalisme anglais en prenant en outre la forme d’un geste charitable. …
Correspondence | Education | Emigration | French Revolution | Memoirs | Salons
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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… literary. In 1784, two years after the succès de scandale of Les liaisons dangereuses , he published a review of Frances Burney ’s Cecilia or Memoirs of an Heiress in the Mercure de France in which he made a plea for the novel as a portrait … 469) 5 . Laclos, Œuvres complètes, Laurent Versini (ed.) (Paris: nrf-Gallimard, 1979), p. 448-449. Laclos invited Miss Burney to continue her condemnation of corrupt morals but to use ridicule as a weapon to expose those who undermined …
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Fiction | France | Freemasonry | Republic of Letters
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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… a number of intellectuals generally committed to progressive ideas, including Edward Jerningham, John Moore, Frances Burney , Charlotte Smith, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and William Godwin. As an abolitionist ( A Poem on the Bill Lately …
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