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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… at the Burney’s home almost verbatim, or so it seems to the reader. After the publication of her first novel, Evelina , or the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World , in 1778, Frances would perform similar feats as part … Burney, 2 vols. (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995). Both Frances’s first and second novels, Evelina and then Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782), reflect the young Burney sisters’ experiences of London-based sociability: Evelina approaches London as a debutante from the country, getting as lost in the mazes of Vauxhall as in the unwritten …
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Spas [ Health ]
… 18th-Century Medical and Literary Texts: From John Floyer’s The Ancient Psychrolousia Revived (1702) to Fanny Burney’s Evelina (1778)”, in Annick Cossic and Patrick Galliou (eds). Spas in Britain and in France in the Eighteenth and … gendered interactions are known to us through literature, especially the novels of Jane Austen and Frances Burney ( Evelina ), in which young women accompany older men or women to a spa town (usually Bath or Bristol Hotwells). These …
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Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
Correspondence | Fashion | Fiction | Gambling | Politics | Suicide
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… at Court. A year later, she began to patronize Dr Burney’s daughter, the young Frances Burney , whose first novel, Evelina , had made such a splash. Frances, an inveterate diarist, would chronicle many of the debates at Streatham, and …
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Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… biographies, memoirs, and autobiographies—genres frequently intermingled—expanded. Novels such as Frances Burney ’s Evelina (1778) and Tobias Smollett’s The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) featured Drury Lane as a setting … Harold Gray, Theatrical Criticism in London to 1795 (New York: Benjamin Blom, 1931, 1964). 27 . See Frances Burney, Evelina, or A Young Lady’s Entrance into the World, 3 vols (London: T. Lowndes, 1778), vol 1, p. 28; for Tabitha …
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Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis [ Aristocracy ]
… 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 duchesse de Portland, …
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