English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright (1752–1840)
For her niece the playwright, see Frances Burney (1776–1828).
Frances Burney
Portrait by her cousin Edward Francis Burney
Born
(1752-06-13)13 June 1752 Lynn Regis, England
Died
6 January 1840(1840-01-06) (aged 87) Bath, England
Notable works
Journals (1768–1840)
Evelina (1778)
Cecilia (1782)
Camilla (1796)
The Wanderer (1814)
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Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. In 1786–1790 she held the post of "Keeper of the Robes" to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George III's queen. In 1793, aged 41, she married a French exile, General Alexandre d'Arblay. After a long writing career and wartime travels that stranded her in France for over a decade, she settled in Bath, England, where she died on 6 January 1840. The first of her four novels, Evelina (1778), was the most successful and remains her most highly regarded, followed by Cecilia (1782). Most of her stage plays were not performed in her lifetime. She wrote a memoir of her father (1832) and many letters and journals that have been gradually published since 1889, forty-nine years after her death.
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by those of renowned writer and critic Samuel Johnson and novelists FrancesBurney and Maria Edgeworth. She considered poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott...
with notable celebrities, including Lord Sandwich, Dr Samuel Johnson, FrancesBurney and Anna Seward, among others. Richard Holmes remarks that Omai's idiosyncratic...
Women. Anna Laetitia Barbauld James Beattie Frances Boscawen Henrietta Maria Bowdler Edmund Burke FrancesBurney Elizabeth Carter Margaret Cavendish-Harley...
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well acquainted with Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire and FrancesBurney (Madame D'Arblay) whom she frequently visited at her London home and...
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