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Fanny Burney

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by Claire Harman


  FB’s relations with 161, 311, 362, 369, 375

  and FB’s writings 90, 105

  and Gordon riots 153, 154, 155

  marriages 188, 277

  motherhood 188, 356

  relations with step-family 87, 162

  and Susan’s marriage difficulties 271–2

  widowhood 251, 301

  Burney, Edward Francesco (FB’s cousin) 97–9, 101–2, 362

  portraits by 69, 171, 255

  Burney, Elizabeth (formerly Allen, nèe Allen, FB’s stepmother) 76, 241

  d’Arblay’s relations with 246–7, 254

  Dr Burney’s relations with 32–3, 45–6, 49–50, 52

  death 273

  FB’s relations with 48, 52–4, 73, 81, 101–2, 118, 130, 161, 177–8, 273–4

  friendship with Esther (Sleepe) Burney 16

  and Gordon riots 154, 155

  marriage 47, 177

  personality of 52, 80–1, 102

  portrait in Memoirs xxi, 48–50

  pregnancies 51, 251–2

  relations with stepchildren 51, 62, 80–1, 87n, 161–2, 278, 279

  sexual jealousy 81–2

  wealth of 32, 47–8

  Burney, Esther (Hetty, née Burney, FB’s sister) 72, 278, 311, 359, 362

  on Alex 366

  birth 12

  death 375

  and Dr Burney’s will 320

  education 33, 34

  FB’s correspondence with 194–5, 285, 298, 299, 305–6, 312, 355, 361, 362, 364

  and Gordon riots 154, 155

  marriage 65–6, 73, 74, 131–2

  motherhood 66, 77, 161, 163, 188

  musical talents xx, xxiv, 18, 22, 28, 66

  personality 44

  relations with parents 22–3, 25, 27

  relations with stepmother 103

  social life 59, 60, 65

  Burney, Esther (née Sleepe, FB’s mother) xxviii; death 25–8, 30, 39, 49, 51. 214

  family background 8–9

  FB’s relations with 17, 25, 28, 74

  friendships 16

  ill health 25

  illegitimate pregnancy 8, 10–11

  literary interests 15–16, 22

  marriage 11, 12

  as mother 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 22, 24, 27–8

  religion 10

  as translator 63

  Burney, Frances (Fanny, FB’s niece) 362, 375

  BURNEY, FRANCES (Fanny, later Mme d’Arblay): appearance 14, 69–70, 311–12

  birth 15, 16

  as celebrity l, 131, 141, 148, 151, 370

  childhood 18, 21, 22–3, 25, 28–30, 34, 40

  conservatism 41, 58, 229–30, 232

  at Court 197–212, 214, 215, 217–22, 225, 226–7

  d’Arblay’s courtship of 234–6, 239–40, 242–7, 249–50

  death 381

  as dramatist 69, 135, 224–7, 259, 289, 329

  early reading difficulties 23–4, 28, 33, 67

  eating disorder 71–2, 127

  egotism 373–4, 383

  family background 1–4, 8–10

  and feminism 41–2, 58, 94, 167, 256–7, 272, 325–6

  financial situation 89, 170, 241–3, 251–2, 259, 261, 268, 276, 287, 288, 300, 301, 315, 316, 317, 320

  foreign residence 295–301, 331–47

  homes 253, 254, 275–6, 296, 299–300, 348, 361, 375, 380

  ill health 70, 101, 146, 163, 222–3, 227, 258, 260, 312

  imagination 22–3, 208

  juvenilia 43–5, 53–4

  literary style 55–8, 84–5, 122, 149, 209–10, 226–7, 270, 327–9, 372, 373, 374–5, 389–94

  marriage 253, 254

  married life 236, 254–5, 257–9, 288–9, 302, 330, 332, 355, 361

  mastectomy 304–8, 309, 312

  memoranda 304

  mental fragility 208–9, 226

  motherhood 258, 274

  musical interests 22, 28

  naivety 215, 238

  as novelist 4, 17, 30, 42–3, 44, 56, 57, 61, 67, 72, 96, 160, 186, 192, 227

  observational powers 181

  in old age 369–70, 379–80

  personality 28–30, 44–5, 123, 126, 368

  as poet 66–7

  portraits of 69–70, 171, 182n, 311–12

  powers of memory xx-xxi, 24, 43, 149, 387–8

  prudery 44, 192, 238, 290

  reading tastes 40–3, 129, 256

  relations with men 59–60, 67, 72, 131–2, 152, 179–80, 181–6, 200, 214, 217–18, 221–2

  relations with Royal Family 340, 358, 362–3,

  see also above, at Court.,

  relations with siblings 22, 29, 132, 188

  religion 10, 33, 179, 356

  self-consciousness/shyness 30, 44, 67–8, 99, 128–9, 212, 235, 313, 375

  short-sightedness 70

  self-education 18, 22, 51–2, 56

  sensitivity 18, 44, 52, 55

  widowhood 361–2

  will 381

  as writer xix-xxv, 42, 53, 56, 58, 61–2, 85–6, 98–9, 116–17, 125, 130, 131, 139, 169, 209–10, 224, 244, 322, 362, 374–5, 384; see also under titles of individual works

  Burney, Hannah Maria see Bourdois, Hannah Maria

  Burney, James (FB’s brother) 76, 212, 253, 277, 362

  Alex’s relations with 343

  birth 14

  childhood 18, 22

  death 159, 365–6

  and death of Cook 156–8

  elopement with Sarah Harriet 159, 238, 278–80, 301

  friendship with Phillips 159–60, 271, 281

  marriage 170, 188

  married life 249, 278–9, 311

  naval career 20, 25, 33, 78, 80, 95, 160, 163, 186–7, 222, 365

  personality 160

  political views 186, 229

  relations with father 320, 356

  writings 311

  Burney, James (FB’s grandfather) 2–6, 12

  Burney, Martin Charles (FB’s nephew) 249, 381

  Burney, Rebecca (FB’s aunt) 13, 97

  Burney, Richard (FB’s uncle) 3, 7–8, 22

  Burney, Richard Allen (FB’s nephew) xix, 77

  Burney, Richard Gustavus (FB’s cousin) 99–100

  Burney, Richard Thomas (Dick, FB’s half-brother) 52, 76, 213–14, 301

  Burney, Sarah (Sally, nèe Payne, FB’s sister-in-law) 170, 188, 249, 279, 311n, 362

  Burney, Sarah Harriet (Sally, FB’s half-sister) 228, 319, 376

  birth 76

  childhood 77, 85, 103, 161

  and d’Arblay 244, 246, 247

  on Diary 383–4

  and Dr Burney’s will 320

  education 213

  elopement with James Burney 159, 238, 278–80, 301

  FB’s relations with 186, 273

  and FB’s will 381

  letters xviii; as novelist 246, 280, 311, 384

  relations with mother 212–13

  Burney, Sarah (Rosette, nèe Rose, FB’s sister-in-law) 186

  Burney, Susanna (FB’s aunt), 2, 3

  Burney, Susanna Elizabeth (Susan, FB’s sister) 76, 79, 102, 195, 237, 260

  birth 17

  childhood 25, 33, 46

  and d’Arblay 232, 251, 253

  death 159, 283, 284–5, 381

  FB’s correspondence with 55, 72, 112–13, 115–16, 118, 130, 132, 133, 146–7, 149, 153, 161, 162, 163, 169, 173, 176, 183, 189–90, 200, 201, 205, 208–9, 222, 226, 227, 243, 285

  FB’s relations with 29, 45, 53, 54, 101, 156, 160, 161, 178, 190, 247, 283

  and FB’s writings 90, 98, 105–6, 111, 139–40

  and Gordon riots 154, 155

  journal 213

  marriage 159, 160–2, 163, 169–70;

  married life 188, 251, 270–3, 281

  musical interests xxiii, 28

  papers of xviii; personality 22, 28

  physical frailty 161, 190, 281–2

  politics of 229–30, 326

  on siblings 44

  Busy Day, A (FB) 289
, 290–4, 327

  Byron, Augusta 147, 152

  Byron, George Gordon, 6th Lord xvii, 315, 328

  Cambridge, Charlotte 197, 306

  Cambridge, George Owen 197, 199–200, 225

  as Alex’s patron 362, 366, 368, 379

  FB’s love for 180, 181–6, 200

  Cambridge, Kitty 184

  Cambridge, Richard Owen 181, 182, 183, 184–5

  Cambridge University 87, 88, 316–17, 350

  Camden Chapel 368, 375, 379

  Camilla (FB) 28n, 185, 276, 326, 327, 329

  autobiographical elements 89, 184, 213n

  composition 249, 261–2, 289

  dedication 210, 211, 249, 374

  Gothic elements 265–6

  influence on Austen 269

  plot 262–7

  published by subscription 267, 268

  reception 268–9

  revisions 268, 288, 384–5

  sermonising tone of 261, 267, 272

  Camilla Cottage 275–6, 295, 298, 300, 317

  Campbell, Thomas 313

  Canning, George 370

  Careless Husband, The (Cibber) 67

  Caroline, Princess of Wales 313

  ‘Caroline Evelyn’ (FB) 45, 54, 85, 115

  Carter, Elizabeth 151

  Carter, Molly 7

  Catholic Relief Act 152, 153

  Cecilia (FB) 92n, 244, 263, 327

  autobiographical elements 61, 89, 208

  composition 162–4, 168

  earnings from 170, 241

  introduction 168–9, 385

  plot 143, 164–7

  publication 169–70

  realism of 166, 167, 168

  reception 170, 192, 269

  satire 166, 168

  Ceiestini (violinist) 80

  Chapone, Mrs 133, 176, 179

  Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal 363

  Charlotte Sophia, Queen 227, 274, 373

  d’Arblay’s presentation to 357–8

  FB in retinue of 197–8, 201–3

  FB’s relations with 208–9, 222, 223, 239, 241

  and FB’s writings 170, 249, 268

  friendship with Mrs Delany 191–3

  and King’s illness 216

  portrait in Diary 199, 210–11

  Chatham, 2nd Earl of 222

  Chateaubriand, François-René de xvii, 335

  Châtre, Marie-Charlotte, comtesse de la 231

  Chavagnac, Adrienne de 295

  Chelsea College 196, 212, 227–8, 273, 311

  Che[s]sington 38–40, 67, 101, 113, 114, 162, 163, 170, 187–8, 205, 249

  Chester 5–6, 12, 356

  Cholmondeley, Mary (née Woffington) 101, 112, 114n, 116, 118, 129, 131

  Chudleigh, Miss 60

  Cibber, Coliey 67, 150

  Cibber, Susannah (née Arne) 6, 38

  Clarentine (Sarah Harriet Burney) 246, 280

  Clark, Lorna J. 213n, 279

  Cleland, John 22, 68

  Clerke, Captain Charles 156, 157

  Clifford, James 107

  Clive, Kitty 6

  Coke family 15

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 99

  Colla, Giuseppe 78–9

  Condover 4, 5

  Constant, Benjamin 330

  Cook, Captain James 1, 78, 156–8

  Cooke, Cassandra (née Leigh), 270, 315n

  Cooke, Mary 270

  Cooke, Papilian Catherine (Kitty) 40, 101–2, 139, 171, 187, 249–50

  Cooke, Revd Samuel 270

  Cooper, Ann, see Burney, Ann Cooper

  Corneley, Mrs 22, 60

  Coussmaker, Catherine 104, 105

  Covent Garden 21, 285, 291

  Coventry, Earl of 37

  Coventry, Lady Mary (nèe Gunning) 37

  Crabbe, George 370

  Crewe, Lady Frances (née Greville) 11, 267, 312

  Crisp, Samuel 65, 148

  death 171, 178

  on Dr Burney 170

  as dramatist 37–8, 143, 261

  FB’s correspondence with xxii, xxiii-xxiv, 55, 73, 77–8, 80, 83–4, 114–15, 123, 136–9, 151, 164, 170

  on FB’s personality 45, 72

  FB’s relations with 36, 40, 67, 101, 137

  and FB’s writings 103, 116, 117–18, 124, 133, 137–8, 139–42, 143, 150, 162–3, 170, 384

  friendship with Dr Burney 19, 36–7, 47

  musical interests 37

  on Phillips 159

  portrait 171

  relations with Elizabeth Burney 81, 102, 161–2

  retirement to Chesington 38–40

  Critic, The (Sheridan) 142n

  Critical Review 65, 101, 268

  Croker, John Wilson xxi, 327, 374, 383

  Crutchley, Jeremiah 172, 215

  Cumberland, Richard 142, 143n, 148

  Cunning-Man, The (Charles Burney) 34–6

  Dahl, Michael 2

  D’Arblay, Alexander Charles Louis Piochard (Alex, FB’s son) 309, 347, 361

  birth 259

  childhood 276, 295

  Church career 362, 366, 368, 375, 379

  death 320, 375, 379

  education 89n, 302–4, 315, 316–17, 330–1, 349–50, 352, 359

  engagement 377–8

  on FB’s writing 329, 343–4

  health 287, 299, 302, 303, 317

  and Memoirs 371

  mental problems 352–3, 378, 380

  papers of 379

  personality 274, 302, 304, 311, 331, 352–3, 368

  as poet 366–7, 376

  relations with FB 342–4, 349, 355, 366, 377, 378

  relations with women 367–8, 376

  D’Arblay, Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste Piochard (FB’s husband): appearance 235

  arrival in England 231

  as civil servant 300–1, 318

  correspondence with FB 235, 242–3, 247

  courtship of FB 233–6, 239–40, 242–7, 249–50

  death 320, 360

  diary 358

  ennoblement 348

  financial situation 241–3, 248, 250, 259, 276, 287, 300, 350

  French kin 255, 275, 287–8, 298

  ill health 344, 346, 357–60

  love for FB 235, 259, 330, 355, 358, 360, 361

  marriage 253

  married life 236, 254–5, 257–9) 275–6, 332

  military career 231–2, 247, 294–5) 329–37, 341) 346, 351

  personality 232, 235, 236, 243, 247–8, 333, 361

  portrait 350–1

  relations with Lockes 318

  returns to France 287–8, 294–5, 329, 350, 352

  Dawson, Nancy 113, 115

  Deal 310

  Delany, Mary (née Granville) 201, 255

  autobiography 191

  death 215

  FB’s friendship with 190–1, 198, 205

  personality 191

  portrait in Memoirs xxi; royal connections 170, 191–3, 195, 219

  Delany, Dr Patrick 190, 191

  Delap, Revd Dr John 71, 142–3

  Devin du village, Le (Rousseau) 34

  Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of 131, 238, 262

  Devonshire, William Cavendish, 5th Duke of 238

  Dewes, Bernard 192

  Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay (ed. Barrett) 363–4

  address to Nobody xx, 54–5

  Court section 199, 210–11

  editions xviii, xxvii; ‘Ilfracombe Adventure’ 353–5, 363

  ‘Journey to Trèves’ 344, 363

  literary style 54–6, 148–9

  Macaulay’s essay on xix, 327, 374

  ‘Narrative of the Illness & Death of General d’Arblay’ 359

  publication 383

  reception 383–4

  reliability of xix-xxi, 53, 354–5

  reviews 327

  ‘Waterloo Journal’ 338, 341, 363

  Dickens, Charles 92, 168

  Dictionary of Love (Cleland) 68

  Dictionary of the English Language (Johnson) 19, 63, 108

  Didero
t, Denis 19, 64

  Digby, Col. the Hon. Stephen 214, 217, 218, 220, 221–2, 225

  Disraeli, Benjamin 376

  Dobson, Austen xviii, xxvii, 53

  Dodsley, James 90

  Doody, Margaret Anne xxvii, 7n, 12, 182, 225–6, 265

  Drury Lane Theatre 6, 14, 21, 31, 34–6, 37, 96, 99, 260

  Dubois, Frances, see Sleepe, Frances Dubois

  Dubois, Pierre 9, 10

  Dumouriez, General Charles-François 247

  Early Journals and Letters of Frances Burney (ed. Troide and Cooke) xviii, 112

  East Indian, The (Anon.) 143

  Eclectic Review 383

  Edgeworth, Maria 268, 269, 313, 372, 373

  Edinburgh Review 328, 343

  Edwy and Elgiva (FB) 135, 224–6, 285

  composition 217, 223–4

  performance 259–61

  revisions 289

  Effingham, Elizabeth Howard, Countess of 216

  Elberta (FB) 225, 261

  Elizabeth, Princess 340, 363

  Ellis, Annie Raine xviii, 113

  Ellis, Rebecca, see MacBurney family

  Elsham 7

  Emma (Austen) 269, 270

  Encyclopedic (Diderot) 16, 19

  Epstein, Julia 195, 267n

  Essay towards a history of the principal comets… (Charles Burney) 62–3

  Evelina (FB) xviii, 1, 84–106, 111–18, 165, 193, 263, 292, 327

  author’s anonymity 86, 90, 96, 97–101, 103–4, 123–5, 129–31, 147, 384

  autobiographical elements 22, 46, 89, 96, 105

  epistolary form 84

  literary style 57, 84–5, 375

  moral purpose 43

  plot 91–2

  preface 90–1

  publication 85–6, 97, 370–1, 374, 384

  reception 100–1, 104–6, 111, 112–19, 122, 123–4, !34> 146–7. 188

  as satire 35, 68–9, 91, 92–6, 129

  transcribed 90

  Eversley, George John Le Fevre, 1st Baron 354

  FarinelH (pseud. Carlo Broschi, singer) 64

  Fay de Latour-Maubourg, Catherine de 298

  ‘Female Caution’ (FB) 66

  Fielding, Henry 22, 42, 96, 105

  Fielding, Sir John 60

  Fielding, Mrs 204

  Flint, Bet 126

  Folcher, Betty 23

  Foley, Sir Thomas and Lady Lucy 310

  Fordyce, James 41, 42, 68, 257

  Foster, Lady Elizabeth 238

  Fox-Strangways, Lady Lucy 26, 214

  France 255, 275, 287–8, 295–7

  Revolution 220–1, 229–30, 233–4

  wars with England 237, 300–1, 318–19

  Francis, Charlotte (FB’s niece), see Barrett, Charlotte

  Francis, Charlotte (FB’s sister), see Burney, Charlotte Ann

  Francis, Clement (FB’s brother-in-law) 188, 215, 251, 277

  Francis, Clement Robert (FB’s nephew) 310, 311, 316, 375

  Francis, Marianne (FB’s niece) 301, 311, 312, 313, 314. 356, 368, 369. 375

  Frasi, Giulia 13

  Friendship in Death (Rowe) 28

 

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