<p>Fanny Burney was best known in her own time as the author of Evilina and other novels. Her modern reputation, however, rests primarily on her extensive journals and letters. The third of eleven children of Charles Burney, an eminent musician, author, and composer, she began keeping a journal of h
Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 2
β Scribed by Lars E. Troide
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 336
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The second volume of this critical edition of the early journals and letters of Fanny Burney brings us to the eve of her sudden fame as the author of Evelina. With the publication of each volume of this edition, the full texts of Burney's early journals and letters are, for the first time, made available in their original state.
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
SHORT TITLES AND ABBREVIATIONS
EARLY JOURNALS AND LETTERS OF FANNY
BURNEY from 7 February 1774 to post 11 November 1777, Numbers 13β47
APPENDICES
1. Fanny Burney's First Letter to Thomas Lowndes
2. A Letter of Mrs Elizabeth Allen Burney to Fanny Burney
3. Fanny Burney's Letter to Esther Burney, July 1770
INDEX
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π SIMILAR VOLUMES
<div>Volume V of The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney covers a period of significant gains and losses for the young writer. Professionally, Burney consolidated her reputation as England's premier novelist with the publication of Cecilia. Through a mutual friendship she gained an appointmen
<DIV>The years 1774-77 saw Fanny Burney's increasing occupation with Evelina, which she finally completed and presented to the publisher Thomas Lowndes. Like her novel, the journals and letters of this period reveal her artistic powers, as she continues to sketch characters with economy and precisi
<p>A brilliant portrait of eighteenth-century English life and manners from the pen of a major British novelist.</p>
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<p>At the beginning of 1778 twenty-five-year-old Fanny Burney was an unknown. By year's end, however, she had emerged as the author of Evelina, or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World, a universally acclaimed novel which admirers ranked with the works of Fielding and Richardson.</p>