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Hace 5 días · Chapters 2 (on ‘spleen’ and Anne Finch, 1661–1720), 5 (on tuberculosis and Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759–1797) and 6 (on breast cancer and Frances Burney, 1752–1840), by contrast, centre on the experience of patients.
Hace 3 días · Clifton in Bristol has many literary connections, not least of which is that it is the setting for much of Frances Burney’s first novel, Evelina (1778). Jane Austen visited in 1806, and Clifton features in her novels Emma, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey. Novelist Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) also visited Clifton. Her brother-in-law, Dr Thomas Beddoes (1760–1808), […]
Hace 5 días · Burney Family Collection. The James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Hace 5 días · Gibson spotlights salon hosts Elizabeth Montagu and Hester Thrale alongside prominent intellectual figures of the period: novelists Frances Burney and Sarah Scott, poets Ann Yearsley and Hannah More, author and advocate Mary Wollstonecraft and historian Catharine Macaulay.
Hace 4 días · In her 1796 novel Camilla, Frances Burney described a character who “stroamed into the ball-room, with the most visible marks of his unfitness for appearing in it.” The OED indicates that stroaming involves “long strides” and/or idleness, so watch your form and attitude when out on a stroam.
Hace 17 horas · In 1778, Frances Burney (1752–1840) wrote Evelina, one of the first novels of manners. Fanny Burney's novels "were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen". Precursors of Romanticism. The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility.
Hace 5 días · A society in which behavior is codified, language restricted to impersonal formulas, and the expression of feeling muted, is the province of the novel of manners, and such fiction may be produced as readily in the 20th century as in the era of Fanny Burney or Jane Austen.
