Fanny Burney

by Claire Harman

  irreflection, sb. [O.E.D. Irreflection, 1835–] 1832 Memoirs, II, 173 She was rather, therefore, from her scoff of all consequences, a child of witty irreflection.

  John Bullism, sb. [O.E.D. John Bullism, 1796–] 1791 Journals, I, 8 After a little deliberation, we were now touched to shake off a part of the John Bullism that had encrusted us, & to ask them to our sitting Room, to drink Tea.

  jump, v. [O.E.D. Jump, v., 8., 1815–] 1796 Camilla, I, 361 Edgar, somewhat agitated, occupied himself with jumping the little boy.

  kinspeople, sb. [O.E.D. Kinspeople, 1866–] 1796 Camilla, IV, 150 ‘caring about the wide world, so, when we know nothing of it, instead of one’s own uncles and nephews, and kinspeople!’

  litter, sb. [plural use not in O.E.D.] 1801 Journals, IV, 504 two Tables – one to keep the Wall, & take upon itself the dignity of a little tidyness, the other to stand here – there – & every where, & hold litters.

  lodging-hunting, vbl. sb. [O.ED. Lodging, vbl. sb., 6., 1879–] 1796 Camilla, III, 153 a message from Mrs Arlbery, who always breakfasted in her own room, to announce that she was going out lodging-hunting.

  lunch, sb. [O.E.D. lunch, sb.,2 2., 1829–] 1812 Journals, VII, 46 She has engaged me to her house on Tuesday, for a Lunch, with the Miss Berrys.

  lunch-party, sb. [O.E.D. 2nd Suppl., Lunch, sb.,2 3., 1884–] 1812 Journals, VII, 52 I have also been at Lady Crewe’s to a Lunch party made for my meeting the Miss Berrys.

  lunch-dinner, sb. [O.E.D. Lunch, sb.,2 3., 1878–] 1797 Journals, IV, 36 This morning M. Bourdois has been here, to a lunch dinner, & M. d’A is walked off with him.

  maisonnette, sb. [O.E.D. Maisonette, 1818–] 1793 Journals, III, 2 We have not yet begun our Maisonette in Norbury Park: M. d’Arblay is his own Architect.

  make oneself up [O.E.D. 2nd Suppl., Make, v., 96. i. (b), 1808–] 1778 Evelina, I, 97 ‘I suppose you’d have me learn to cut capers? – and dress like a monkey? – and palaver in French gibberish? – hay, would you? – And powder, and daub, and make myself up, like some other folks?’

  M.P., sb. [O.E.D. M.P., 1809–] 1801 Journals, V, 106 The Chancellor gave in his language the rebuke he loved not to give to a M.P. & so powerful an antagonist, as Mr Sheridan.

  nothingist, sb. [O.E.D. Nothingist, 1890–] 1797 Journals, IV, 45 Your Collection of learned Wights at the Royal Society stopt my breath – though the ‘Nothingists’ gave it me back.

  nothingly, a. [O.E.D. Nothingly, a., 1833–] 1802 Journals, V, 187–8 God knows how little I shall ever think of our losses, & how NOTHINGLY they are.

  nudging, a. [sense not in O.E.D.] 1796 Camilla, I, 198 ‘She’s not a bit like a lady of fortunes, with that nudging look.’

  opera buffa, sb. [O.E.D. Opera, 3., 1880–] 1801 Journals, V, 267 Made d’henin made a party for us all to meet again the next day, & go to the Opera Buffa.

  parade, v. [O.E.D. Parade, v., 3., 1809–] 1796 Camilla, IV, 230 She kept, therefore, her seat, looking steadily straight down the water, and denying herself one moment’s glance at anything, or person, upon the beach: little imagining she ingrossed, herself, the attention of all who paraded it.

  pas seul, sb. [O.E.D. Pas, 2., 1870] 1813 Journals, VII, 70 I know not exactly how many fandangos, or pas seul’s, I may dance, but I cannot deny myself, upon such an occasion.

  pinky-winky, a. [O.E.D. Pinky, a.1, 1817–] 1814 The Wanderer, II, 293 ‘I should sooner take her for my wax-doll, when she’s all so pinky-winky.’

  plain sailing [O.E.D. Suppl., plain sailing, sb., 1823—) 1796 Camilla, I, 73 the rudiments, which would no sooner be run over, than the rest would become plain sailing.

  play, v. [O.E.D. Play, v., 22. c, 1850–] 1796 Journals, III, 157 Bambino & I have played our Ball up to the Top of the Bed, & nobody can reach it.

  post-chaise-and-four [O.E.D. Post-chaise, sb., 1840–] 1796 Camilla, III, 7 I then followed him to the little lane to the right of the park, where I perceived an empty post-chaise-and-four in waiting.

  re-encourage, v. [O.E.D. Re-encourage, v., –1670] 1782 Cecilia, V, 172 ‘You must then be angry with yourself, next’, said Cecilia, anxious to re-encourage her.

  re-hear, v. [O.E.D. Re-hear, v., 2., 1815–] 1799 Journals, IV, 297 He has taken the amazing trouble & toil of copying the whole, from the pleasure the interview gave him! though he may always re-hear it DE VIVE VOIX!

  self-acquitted [O.ED. Self-, 2., 1847–] 1814 The Wanderer, III, 107 their honour was self-acquitted and self-applauded.

  self-desertion, sb. [O.E.D. Self-, 1. a., 1823–] 1796 Camilla, V, 454 will no worthier wish occur to thee, than to leave it to its sorrows and distress, with the aggravating pangs of causing thy afflicting, however blamable self-desertion?

  self-enclosed [O.ED. Self-, 3. a., 1876–] 1814 The Wanderer, IV, 240 Juliet passed three days, self-inclosed.

  shake hands, sb. [O.E.D. Shake, v., 22., 1811–] 1800 Journals, IV 436 William will be much pleased by a private congratulatory shake hands from you in his own Apartment.

  showable, a. [O.E.D. Showable, a., 3., 1823–] Journals, VII, 157 a Credential to shew, in your own hand writing, with an excuse for your sudden absence, that you did not see or write yourself. It was most fortunate that bit was shewable, for it gave propriety to the Measure.

  sight-seeker, sb. [O.E.D. Sight, sb.1, 16, 1844–] 1814 Journals, VII, 438 But for Heaven’s sake send him no more sight-seekers, who expect ‘The Hero’ to give dinners, & shew Lyons!

  skipping-rope, sb. [O.E.D. Skipping-rope, 1836–] 1802 Journals, V, 388 He interests himself warmly about them, since he has seen the Cuttings, especially of the skipping ropes.

  social-cheerful, a. [O.E.D. Social, a., 11.; no examples of compounds before 1890] 1800 Journals, IV, 404 I have found my sadness so extreme – so depressing to all exertion – so mischievous to all the purposes of social-chearful life.

  stram, v. [O.E.D. 1st Suppl., Stram, v., 1846–] 1792 Journals, I, 209 He bowed without looking at her, & she strammed away, still, however, keeping in sight.

  tartine, sb. [O.E.D. Tartine, 1826–] 1804 Journals, VI, 477 I have given no more medicine – plenty of tisanes &c, & tartines of Honey & salad are all he has taken.

  tea-paper, sb. [O.E.D. 1st Suppl., Tea, sb., 9. a., 1884–] 1814 Journals, VII, 488 If you write to me again upon a scrap that can hardly arrive – I shall answer upon a bit of Tea paper.

  thank you, sb. [O.E.D. Thank you, b., 1887–] 1792 Journals, I, 174 He looked even extremely gratified at these first voluntary words, & Bowed expressively a thank you.

  tinies, sb. [O.E.D. Tiny, a., B. 2., 1863–] 1797 Journals, III, 326 He always selected the littlest for his first donation, & stopt & hesitated before he could persuade himself to give at all to any bigger Children, if they came accompanied by tinies.

  totter, v. [O.E.D. Totter, v, 5., –1693] 1814 The Wanderer, V, 120 ‘a dimple of yours demolishes all their work, and again totters me down to your feet!’

  tranquillizer, sb. [O.E.D. Tranquillizer, 1822–56] 1800 Journals, IV, 402 I find, however, USEFUL employment the best tranquiliser.

  unamusing, ppl. a. [O.E.D. Unamusing, ppl. a., 1799–] 1794 Journals, III, 43 He found it very unamusing to have a Walk without any but, & be always obliged to turn short back.

  unappreciable, a. [O.E.D. Unappreciable, a., 1822–] 1801 Journals, V, 21 my dear Charlottina, whom I regard as an unappreciable consolation & delight to you.

  unconvenience, sb. [O.E.D. Unconvenience, –1635] 1796 Camilla, II, 305 ‘I’ve made no other, on account of the unconvenience of dressing.’

  undefinably, adv. [O.E.D. Undefinably, adv., 1886–] 1796 Camilla, V, 470 While wrapt up in this reverie, poignantly agitating, yet undefinably soothing.

  underbred, sb. [O.E.D. Underbred, 2. b., 1880–] 1814 The Wanderer, IV, 105 even the poisoned shafts of malice are less disconcerting to delicacy than the unqualified bluntness of the curious underbred.

  underminingly, adv. [O.E.D. Underminingly, adv., –1601] 1832 memoirs, III, 176 The accumulatio
n of the whole had, slowly and underminingly, brought him into the state that has been described.

  undisquisitionable, a. [not in O.E.D.] 1791 Journals, I, 22 I shall enter into no disquisitions of what is nearly proved undisquisitionable.

  ungenial, a. [O.E.D. Ungenial, a., 1. b., 1815–] 1797 Journals, III, 354 what a blessing you keep well! & then the Climate is not very ungenial.

  ungenially, adv. [O.E.D. Ungenially, adv., 1858–] 1814 Journals, VII, 457 O drive, as fast as you can, this William Locke, who has broken so ungenially upon your happiness, from your mind.

  unGrecian, a. [O.E.D. UnGrecian, a., 1847–] 1799 Journals, IV, 359 William there may see Noses to his mind – & if difficult already, make himself 10 times more so with every ungrecian one he sees.

  unjulyish, a. [not in O.E.D.] 1799 Journals, IV, 312 I am very glad the Weather was so good. It was particularly kind of it, for I am sure it has been very unjulyish since.

  unmarked, a. [O.E.D. Unmarked, ppl. a., 1. b., 1815–] 1791 Journals, I, 103 Our visit to Mrs Montagu turned out very unmarked; I met my good Mrs & Miss ord, & a little chat with them was all my entertainment.

  unpleasure, sb. [O.E.D. Unpleasure, 1814–] 1792 Journals, I, 111 I told him, very truly, of the pleasure with which I had re-entered his Roof – but I write the unpleasures that followed!

  unrobustify, v. [not in O.E.D.] 1795 Journals, III, 103 I have been able to see her but twice! – the roads are so indifferent, & we are both so unrobustified as yet.

  unspoil, v. [see O.E.D. Unspoil, v.1: sense not in O.E.D.] 1778 Evelina, II, 42 ‘And what good will that do now? – that won’t unspoil all my cloaths.’

  unsystematized [O.E.D. Unsystematized, ppl. a., 1847–] 1832 Memoirs, III, 323 His internal resources were too diffuse and unsystematized.

  untake, v. [not in O.E.D.] 1802 Journals, V, 179 I had just taken my lodging – at Twickenham, Richmond proving too dear; & at Twickenham Miss Cambridge had recommended me to a friend of hers, who would just have suited me, in all ways. This I must untake as well & handsomely as I can.

  unthin, v. [not in O.E.D.] 1799 Journals, IV, 279 He is better – but neither sleeps well, yet, nor unthins. Fattens is out of all sight or pretension.

  veridically, adv. [O.E.D. Veridically, adv., 1836–] 1832 Memoirs, II, 179 And that not merely because, next to Shakespeare himself, Pope draws human characters the most veridically, perhaps, of any poetic delineator.

  villaette, sb. [O.E.D. Villaette, 1862–] 1792 Journals, I, 184 Miss ord & myself set off for Sudbury, near Harrow, where her very elegant Relation, Mr Orde, has a villarette.

  worsing, vbl. sb. [O.E.D. Worsing, vbl. sb., c. 1575 only] 1796 Camilla, IV, 6 ‘Well, my dear girl,’ he cried, ‘when are all these betterings and worsings to take place?’

  J. N. WADDELL

  Bibliography

  Works by Fanny Burney

  Evelina; or The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World (1778), ed. with an introduction and notes by Margaret Anne Doody (Penguin Classics, 1994)

  Cecilia; or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782), ed. Peter Sabor and Margaret Anne Doody (Oxford World’s Classics, 1988)

  Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy; earnestly submitted to the humane consideration of the Ladies of Great Britain (1793)

  Camilla; or A Picture of Youth (1796), ed. Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom (Oxford World’s Classics, 1983)

  The Wanderer; or Female Difficulties (1814), ed. Margaret Anne Doody, Robert L. Mack and Peter Sabor (Oxford World’s Classics, 1991)

  Memoirs of Doctor Burney, arranged from his own manuscripts, from family papers and from personal recollections by his daughter, Madame d’Arblay, 3 vols (1832)

  Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay, edited by her Niece, 6 vols (1842—6)

  The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768–1778, ed. Annie Raine Ellis, 2 vols (1889)

  The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame d’Arblay) 1791–1840, ed. Joyce Hemlow et al, 12 vols (1972–1984)

  A Busy Day, ed. Tara Ghoshal Wallace (New Brunswick, 1984)

  The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, 1768–1779, ed. Lars E. Troide and Stewart J. Cooke, 3 vols (1988–94)

  The Complete Plays of Frances Burney, 2 vols, ed. Peter Sabor, Stewart J. Cooke et al (1995)

  The Witlings, ed. Clayton J. Delery (Michigan, 1995)

  Select Bibliography

  (Unless otherwise stated, the following are first editions, published in London)

  A to Z of Georgian London, introductory notes by Ralph Hyde (London, 1982)

  Ackerman, R., Microcosm of London (1904)

  Aiken, Jane, Passion and Principle: The Lives and Loves of Regency Women (London, 1996)

  Anderson, W.E.K. (ed.), The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (1972)

  Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey (1818)

  Balderston, K.C. (ed.), Thraliana: The Diary of Mrs. Hester Lynch Thrale (later Mrs. Piozzi), 1776–1809, 2 vols (1942)

  Balderston, K.C., The Age of Johnson (1949)

  Barbauld, Anna Laetitia, The British Novelists (1810)

  Barrow, John (ed.), Captain Cook’s Voyages of Discovery (1906)

  Beaglehole, J.C., The Life of Captain James Cook (1974)

  Beattie, William, The Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell, 3 vols (1850)

  Blake, Robert, Disraeli (1966)

  Blodgett, Harriet, Centuries of Female Days: Englishwomen’s Private Diaries (Gloucester, 1989)

  Boaden, James, Memoirs of Mrs Siddons (1827)

  Brayley, Edward Wedlake, A Topographical History of Surrey (1872)

  Brewer, John, The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (1997)

  Broughton, V.D. (ed.), Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte: Being the Journals of Mrs Papendiek, Assistant Keeper of the Wardrobe and Reader to Her Majesty, 2 vols (1887)

  Burney, Charles, The Cunning-Man, translated from Jean Jacques Rousseau, Le Devin du village (1766)

  Burney, Charles [and Burney, Esther Sleepe], An essay towards a history of the principal comets that have appeared since 1742, prefaced by a letter upon comets by M. de Maupertuis, trans. E. Burney (Glasgow, 1770)

  Burney, Charles, A General History of Music from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period, 4 vols (1776–89)

  Burney, James, A Plan of Defence against Invasion (1797)

  Burney, James, A chronological history of the discoveries in the South sea or Pacific ocean, 5 vols (1803–17)

  Burney, James, An Essay by way of a Lecture, on the Game of Whist (1821)

  Burney, James (ed. Beverley Hooper), With Captain James Cook in the Antarctic and Pacific: The private journal of James Burney Second Lieutenant of the Adventure on Cook’s Second Voyage 1772–1773 (Canberra, 1975)

  Burney, Sarah Harriet, Clarentine (1796)

  Bury, J.T. and Barry, J.C. (eds), An Englishman in Paris, 1803: The Journal of Bertie Greatheed (1953)

  Chapman, R.W. (ed.), The Letters of Samuel Johnson with Mrs Thrale’s Genuine Letters to Him, 3 vols (Oxford, 1952)

  Chisholm, Kate, Fanny Burney: Her Life (1998)

  Clark, Lorna J. (ed.), The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney (Athens, Georgia, 1997)

  Clarke, Isabel C, Six Portraits (1935)

  Clayden, P.W., Rogers and his Contemporaries (1889)

  Clifford, James, Hester Lynch Piozzi (2nd edn, Oxford, 1987)

  Cobban, Alfred, A History of Modem France, 2 vols (1957–61)

  Collier, Joel, Musical Travels Through England (1774)

  Copeland, Edward and McMaster, Juliet, The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (Cambridge, 1997)

  Corbin, Alain, The Lure of the Sea: The Discovery of the Seaside 1750–1840 (1995)

  Crisp, Samuel, Virginia: A Tragedy (1754)

  Crown, Patricia, Drawings by E.F. Burney in the Huntington Collection (San Marino, Cal., 1982)

  Cunningham, P., A Handbook of London (1850)

  Dawe, Donovan, Organists of the City of Lon
don 1666–1850 (1983)

  Day, James Wentworth, King’s Lynn and Sandringham through the Ages (East Anglian Magazine Ltd, 1977)

  Delany, Mary (ed. Lady Llanover), The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs Delany: with Interesting Reminiscences of King George the Third and Queen Charlotte, 6 vols (1861–2)

  Dobson, Austin, Fanny Burney (Madame d’Arblay) (1903)

  Doody, Margaret Anne, Frances Burney: The Life in the Works (New Brunswick, 1988)

  Edwards, Averyl, Fanny Burney, 1752–1840: A Biography (1948)

  Epstein, Julia, The Iron Pen: Frances Burney and the Politics of Women’s Writing (Wisconsin, 1989)

  Farr, Evelyn, The World of Fanny Burney (1993)

  Fordyce, James, Sermons to Young Women, 2 vols (1755)

  Fraiman, Susan, Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development (New York, 1993)

  Gandy, Michael, Catholic Family History: A Bibliography of General Sources (1996)

  Gaussen, A.C.C. (ed.), A Later Pepys: The Correspondence of Sir William Weller Pepys (1904)

  Gérin, Winifred E., The Young Fanny Burney (1961)

  Gordon, George and Britton, John, The Churches of London, 2 vols (1838–9)

  Grau, J.A., Fanny Burney, An Annotated Bibliography (New York, 1981)

  Greville, Robert Fulke (ed. F.M. Bladon), The Diaries of Colonel the Hon. Robert Fulke Greville, Equerry to His Majesty King George III (1930)

  Grierson, Sir H. (ed.), The Letters of Sir Walter Scott, 3 vols (1932)

  Hahn, Emily, A Degree of Prudery: A Biography of Fanny Burney (1961)

  Harting, Johanna H., History of the Sardinian Chapel (1905)

  Hayter, Alethea, Opium and the Romantic Imagination (1968)

  Hayward, A. (ed.), Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi (Thrale), 2 vols (1861)

  Hedley, Olwyn, Queen Charlotte (1975)

  Hemlow, Joyce, The History of Fanny Burney (1958)

  Hemlow, Joyce, with Jeanne M. Burgess and Althea Douglas, A Catalogue of the Burney Family Correspondence, 1749–1878 (New York, 1971)