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Fanny Burney

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by Claire Harman


  Fuller, Richard 47

  Fuller, Rose 148

  Gabrielli, Caterina 80

  Garrick, David xvii, 67, 108

  and Burney children 31–2, 34, 36, 81

  death 136

  friendship with Dr Burney 6, 21, 34

  Johnson on 121

  portrait in FB’s writings 96

  theatrical career 31, 37–8, 136

  Garrick, Eva (née Viegel) 31, 180

  Gast, Sophia (née Crisp) 38, 139, 171

  Gay, John 196

  General Biographical Dictionary 371

  General History of Music (Charles Burney) 1, 63–4. 73, 77, 85, 111, 227, 251

  General History of Voyages to the South Seas (James Burney) 311

  Genlis, Stéphanie-Félicité, comtesse de 208–9, 296

  Gentleman’s Magazine 101

  George III, King 203, 221, 340

  Dr Burney and 196

  FB on 193–4, 199

  friendship with Mrs Delany 192–3, 195

  illness xviii, 215–20, 305, 357, 363

  George III and the Mad-Business (Macalpine & Hunter) 216

  George, Prince of Wales (later Prince Regent) 203, 210, 216–17, 218, 337, 363

  Giardini, Felice de 74

  Gibbon, Edward 170

  Gillray, James 195

  Gordon, Lord George 153, 155

  Gordon riots 152–5

  Grant, Mr and Mrs Charles 214n

  Greatheed, Bertie 300, 333

  Gregg, Elizabeth 13

  Gregg’s Coffee House 13, 97, 155

  Greville, Frances (née Macartney) 7, 11, 16, 96

  Greville, Richard Fulke 6–7, 11–12, 37, 100

  Griffiths, Ralph 268

  Guiffardière, Revd Charles de 204

  Gunning, Charlotte 221

  Gwynn, Mary 229

  Haggerdorn, Johanna 198

  Hahn, Emily 53

  Hales, Lady Mary 104, 105–6, 118, 131, 154

  Halley, Edmond 63

  Hamilton, Christopher 38–9

  Hamilton, Sarah 39–40, 101, 139, 187, 249–50

  Handel, George Friedric 13, 19

  Harcourt, Lady Elizabeth 207

  Harris, F. Leverton 354

  Harris, Thomas 277, 285–6, 288, 291

  Hastings, Warren xvii, xx, 188, 214–15, 222, 267, 278, 387–8

  Hatton, Rebecca 38n

  Hatton Garden 7–8

  Hawkins, Sir John 65, 121–2

  Haymarket Opera House 21, 96

  Hazlitt, William 328, 343, 366n

  Hemlow, Joyce xviii, xxvii, 8n, 86, 213n, 235n, 262, 289, 328

  Hénin, Adélaide-Félicité, princesse d’ 231, 238, 288, 296, 298, 332, 334–5, 336–8, 347

  Herschel, John 366

  Herschel, William 206

  Hesketh, Lady Harriet 239

  Hill, Constance and Ellen 40n

  History of England (Hume) 217, 225

  History of Music (Hawkins) 65, 121

  Hix, Jacques-Antoine 303

  Hogg, Thomas Jefferson 313

  Houghton 15, 19

  Hubert de Vere (FB) 225, 259, 261

  Hulin, General Pierre-Augustin 297

  Hume, David 34, 217, 225, 267

  Humphries, Hannah 99–100

  Hunter, Robert 216

  Hutton, James 238–9, 254

  Hyde, William 154

  Ilfracombe 352–4

  Iliad (Homer) 41–2

  Inferno (Dante) 45

  Isham, Dr Edmund 315

  Jacob, Edward 352

  Jane Shore (melodrama) 29

  Jenyns, Soame 182

  Johnson, Richard Brinsley 56

  Johnson, Dr Samuel xvii, 56, 151, 158

  Boswell’s biography of 227

  death 179; Dictionary 19, 63, 108

  on Elizabeth Burney 87

  on FB xxi, 69

  FB’s relations with xviii, 126–9, 130, 134, 149, 173, 178–9

  and FB’s writings 93, 112–15, 118–19, 120, 122, 129, 130, 132–3, 142, 164, 210, 371

  friendship with Mrs Thrale 107–8, 110, 119–21, 128, 152, 163, 172–3, 177, 178–9

  ill health 120, 173, 178–9; Letters 211

  linguistic coinages 122

  portrait in FB’s writings xxii-xxiii, 121–3, 128, 129, 383

  relations with Dr Burney 13, 76, 108–9

  relations with women 126–7

  Joigny 255, 275, 287, 298–9, 300, 350

  Jonson, Ben 31

  Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (ed. Hemlow) xviii, 289, 375

  Juniper Hall 231–7, 239, 240, 248, 251, 347

  Juniper Hall (Hill) 40n

  Keith, George Keith Elphinstone, Viscount 301

  Keith, Viscountess, see Thrale, Hester Maria 349

  Kemble, John Philip 259, 260

  Kew Palace 217–19

  King, Lt James 157, 159

  King’s Lynn, see Lynn Regis

  Kris, Kathryn 23

  Lade, Sir John 131–2

  ‘Lady’s Dressing Room, The’ (Swift) 43

  Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert, marquis de 231–2, 248, 288, 298, 330, 337, 347

  Lalauze, Charles 60

  Lalauze, Miss 65

  Lally-Tolendal, Trophime-Gérard, comte de 231, 238, 288, 334, 336, 337, 370n

  Lamb, Charles 311

  Larrey, Dominique-Jean 305, 347, 357

  La Tour du Pin, Henriette-Lucie, marquise de 338, 347

  Latour-Maubourg, Victor 319, 347

  Latrobe, Christian Ignatius 273

  Lauriston, Jacques-Alexandre-Bernard 287, 300

  Laval, Catherine-Jeanne, vicomtesse de 298, 330, 347

  Lawrence, D.H. 96

  Le Fevre, Sir John George 354–5

  Lefroy, Anne (née Rickman) 159

  ‘Letter upon Comets’ (Maupertuis) 63

  Letters of Simpkin the Second, The (Broome) 278

  Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de 230–1, 234

  Life of Johnson (Boswell) 227

  Life of Waller (Johnson) 129, 130

  Linley, Elizabeth 70

  Lloyd, Christopher xviii

  Locke, Cecilia 367

  Locke, Frederica (Fredy) 195, 253, 254, 267, 306

  death 375

  FB’s correspondence with 205, 208–9, 226, 232, 239, 283, 284, 299, 300, 318, 319, 359

  FB’s friendship with 188–9, 206, 362

  mental instability 189

  politics 229

  Locke, John 189

  Locke, William 188–9, 229, 231, 242, 252, 253, 254, 284, 295, 305

  Locke, William junior 210, 317–18

  London Review 100

  Lonsdale, Roger xxii, 5, 26, 198, 373

  Lort, Revd Dr Michael 124

  Louis XVI, King 220, 230–1, 232, 233, 234

  Louis XVIII, King 329, 334, 335, 337, 341, 348, 363

  Louis-Philippe, duc d’Orléans, later King of the French 337

  Love and Fashion (FB) 148n, 276–7, 285–8

  Lowndes, Thomas 90, 96n, 97, 106, 123–4, 131, 147, 168

  Lynn Regis (King’s Lynn), Norfolk 15–19, 32, 46, 51

  Macalpine, Ida 216

  Macaulay, Catherine 229

  Macaulay, Thomas Babington 53, 374, 384

  on Crisp 37, 38

  on Dr Burney as parent 23, 24, 199

  on Dr Johnson 164n

  essay on Diary xix, 327, 374

  on FB’s Court appointment 199

  on style of Memoirs 373

  MacBurney family 2–3, 5

  Maisonneuve, Marie-Françoise-Élizabeth Bidault de 298, 334, 347, 367

  Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl of 155

  Mansfield Park (Austen) 270

  Manwaring, G.E. 158

  Martini, Padre G.B. 64

  Mary, Princess 363

  Mason, William 43, 229

  Masque of Alfred (Arne) 6, 14

  Maturin, Ann 365

  Maurville, Henriette-Marguerite Bidé de 3
35, 338, 339, 340, 347

  Meeke, Elizabeth Allen (née Allen, FB’s stepsister) 32, 87, 109

  Meeke, Samuel 87

  Memoirs of Doctor Charles Burney (FB) 56, 121, 246

  composition 371–2

  Crisp in 37

  d’Arblay in 294

  on Dr Burney’s writings 35, 36, 63, 74

  Dr Johnson in 121–3

  family home in 21

  family portraits in 9–10

  FB’s childhood in 30

  FB as writer in 53, 85, 86, 97, 111, 113–14, 115

  literary style of 327, 329, 372, 373, 374–5

  Mrs Thrale in 121, 144–5

  mulberry tree incident in 371

  reception of 372

  reliability of xix, xxi-xxiii, 26, 112, 274, 372–4

  Mickleham 231, 237, 249, 251, 253, 270

  Millico, Giuseppe 80, 96

  Montagu, Elizabeth 119, 129, 133–4, 140, 151, 176, 180, 202, 267

  Monthly Review 65, 100, 105, 268

  Montmorency-Laval, Matthieu, duc de 231, 288, 330

  More, Hannah 128, 134, 180, 256, 257, 261, 267, 277, 328

  Morning Advertiser 260

  Morning Chronicle 285

  Morning Herald 169, 182, 216, 260

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 22, 78

  Murphy, Arthur 67, 107, 108, 132–3, 139, 142, 348

  Narbonne-Lara, Louis-Marie-Jacques-Amatric, comte de 236, 288, 296, 302

  death 318, 330

  at Juniper Hall 231, 233

  relations with d’Arblay 241, 247, 248, 251, 253

  relations with Mme de Staël 237, 240

  Newton, Sir Isaac 63, 75

  Noailles, Adrienne de 298

  Nollekens, Joseph 166

  Norbury Park 188–9, 223, 233, 253, 254, 272, 275, 283, 317–18

  Norfolk 14–15, 18

  Northanger Abbey (Austen) 262, 269, 321–2

  Nuneham Courtney 207

  Omai 78

  Ord, Anna 182, 185, 200–1, 229–30, 237, 239, 241, 254

  Orford, George Walpole, 3rd Earl of 15, 19

  Orloff, Prince Alexis 80

  Oswald, James 6

  Pacchierotti, Gaspare 167

  Palmer, Mary 129

  Palmerston, Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount 131

  Pantheon, Oxford Road 78, 96

  Parham Park, Sussex 171

  Paris 296, 299, 331, 346–7

  Passy 299, 300

  Payne, Sarah, see Burney, Sarah

  Payne, Sarah (FB’s niece) 383

  Payne, Thomas 170

  Payne, Thomas junior 357

  Pepys, William Weller 176, 181, 182, 328

  Persuasion (Austen) 269

  Pevsner, Nikolaus 189

  Phenice Farm 253, 254

  Phillips, Charles Norbury (FB’s nephew) 188, 271–2

  Phillips, Frances, see Raper, Frances

  Phillips, John William James (FB’s nephew) 258, 271, 282, 284, 375

  Phillips, Molesworth 187, 209, 253, 284, 320

  attitude to d’Arblay 251

  friendship with James Burney 159–60, 365–6

  marriages 159, 161, 162, 281–2, 365

  naval career 157–8, 161, 162, 163, 271

  personality 160, 270–1, 281

  Phillips, Susanna Burney, see Burney, Susanna Elizabeth

  Pilfold, Elizabeth 147

  Piozzi, Gabriel Mario 173–7

  Piozzi, Hester Thrale, see Thrale, Hester Lynch

  Pitt, William, the Elder 37

  Pitt, William, the Younger 218, 314

  Planta, Margaret 204, 207, 220, 296

  Poix, Anne-Marie-Louis, princesse de 347

  Pope, Alexander 23, 24, 56, 138

  Port, Mary Ann, see Waddington, Mary Ann

  Porter, Elizabeth 127

  Portland, Margaret, Dowager Duchess of 190, 191, 192

  Present State of Music […], The (Charles Burney) 64–5, 74, 77, 108, 135, 212

  Price, Major William 203

  Pride and Prejudice (Austen) 41n, 91, 269, 315

  Pringle, Veronica (née Rennie) 65

  Proust, Marcel 98–9

  Quarterly Review 327, 383

  Quin, James 6

  Radcliffe, Ann 265, 268

  Raper, Frances (Fanny, née Phillips, FB’s niece) 188, 271, 282, 284, 301, 311, 320, 362, 381

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke) 230

  Regency Bill 219

  Rehearsal, The (Buckingham) 31

  Reynolds, Sir Joshua xvii, 75, 78, 108, 123, 129, 130, 132–3, 161, 180, 215, 348

  Richardson, Samuel 22, 42, 84, 96, 97, 146–7, 165

  Rishton, Maria Allen (née Allen, FB’s stepsister) 67, 213, 254, 280

  childhood 32, 45

  FB’s correspondence with 81, 272

  marriage 74, 87, 278

  relations with men 59, 66

  relations with stepsisters 51

  Rishton, Martin 66, 74, 87

  Rivals, The (Sheridan) 67, 99

  Robinson, Henry Crabb 383

  Rogers, Pat 270

  Rogers, Samuel 111, 313, 370, 371

  Roman Catholicism 9–10, 152–5

  Ross, Jane 213

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 34, 64, 234, 299n

  Rowe, Elizabeth 28

  Royal Suppliants, The (Delap) 142

  Sacchini, Antonio xx, 80

  St Dionis’s Backchurch, Fenchurch Street 12, 13

  St George’s Chapel, Hyde Park Corner 12

  St James’s Church, Westminster 47

  Saintsbury, George 328

  Sandby, Thomas 189

  Sandford, Rebecca (née Burney, FB’s cousin) xix

  Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th Earl of 79, 80

  Santo Domingo 294–5, 329

  Saville, Sir George 153

  School for Scandal, The (Sheridan) 99

  Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana 81, 198, 200, 203, 205, 209, 214, 218, 222, 268

  Scott, Sir Walter xviii, 56, 111, 115, 328, 343, 370–1

  Sermons to Young Women (Fordyce) 41

  Seton, Alexander 59, 65, 72

  Seven Years’ War 20

  Seward, William xxiii, 108, 119, 122, 123, 132, 172, 178

  Sharpin, Susanna 74

  Sheeles, Mrs 24, 25, 65, 214, 285

  Shelburne, William Petty, Earl, 1st Marquis of Lansdowne 172

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe 313

  Sherborne Castle 221

  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley xvii, 67, 70, 99, 214, 312

  and FB’s plays 132–3, 142, 150

  Shinfield 88, 97

  Shrewsbury 2, 3, 5

  Siddons, Sarah 221, 259, 260

  Siege of Pevensey, The (FB) 225

  Simpson, James 48

  Sleepe, Esther, see Burney, E.

  Sleepe, Frances Dubois (FB’s grandmother) 8–10, 96, 190

  Sleepe, James 10

  Sleepe, Mary 10

  Sleepe, Richard 8–10

  Smart, Christopher 6, 13

  Smelt, Lemuel 195, 196, 197

  Smith, C.L.: ‘A Sunday Concert’ 82

  Smith, Charlotte 256

  Smith, Mary Ann 377–8, 380

  Smollett, Tobias 6, 96

  Soho 20

  Solander, Daniel 78

  Sophia, Princess 363

  Spencer, Brent 363

  Spencer, Frederick, 4th Earl of 229

  Spencer, Georgiana Poyntz, Dowager Lady 70, 180

  Spencer, Gervase 11

  Staël, Anne-Louise-Germaine de xvii, 234, 248–9, 251, 288, 330, 354

  FB’s relations with 240–1, 296, 313–14

  personality 236, 240

  sexual morals 237, 238–40

  Stage, The 290

  Stanley, John 196

  Sterne, Laurence 42, 96

  Streatfield, Sophia 82, 152

  Streatham Park 107, 109, 119, 126–7, 161, 163, 173, 348

  ‘Streathamites’ 108, 118, 172

  Strype, John 74n

  Swift, Jonathan
43, 68, 117, 190

  Sylph, The (Anon.) 131

  Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice de xvii, 235, 237. 329–30, 347

  Tamerlane (Rowe) 55

  Templetown, Lady Elizabeth 231

  Tessé, Adrienne-Catherine de Froulay de 298

  Thackeray, William Makepeace 168

  Thielcke, Anne 203

  Thompson, William 7

  Thomson, James 6

  Thrale, Cecilia 175

  Thrale, Harriet 175

  Thrale, Henrietta Sophia 107, 112

  Thrale, Henry 108, 152, 158, 348

  business interests 109, 153, 163

  death 163, 172

  FB’s relations with 151

  ill health 146

  infidelities 82

  married life 107, 145, 176

  Thrale, Hester Lynch (later Mrs Piozzi) xvii, 70, 75, 105, 260, 301

  and Blue-stockings 133–4, 140

  on Burney family 1–2, 89

  family life 107, 145, 152, 174, 175–6

  on FB 1, 86, 129, 144, 207, 223

  FB’s relations with 119, 123, 124–6, 127, 130–1, 143–6, 151–2, 156, 161, 173, 175–8, 223, 313, 348–9

  and FB’s writings 112–14, 115, 116–17, 118–20, 133–4, 139. 141, 166, 267

  friendship with Dr Burney 82, 109, 177

  friendship with Dr Johnson 108, 120–1, 128, 172, 177

  home of 44, 109

  journal, see Thraliana; literary career 223

  literary interests 107, 142

  personal classification system 102, 109

  portrait in Memoirs xxii-xxiii, 114, 121, 145

  relations with Elizabeth Burney 102, 109–10

  remarriage 173–8

  wealth 109, 158, 172

  widowhood 163, 172–3, 313, 348

  Thrale, Hester Maria (Queeney, later Viscountess Keith) 113, 148

  FB’s correspondence with 151, 176–7, 349

  FB’s relations with 126, 144, 177–8

  as heiress 174

  marriage 301

  as pupil of Dr Burney 108, 118

  relations with mother 152, 174–5, 176, 178

  Thrale, Sophia 176

  Thraliana (Thrale) 109, 118, 139, 141, 144–6, 152, 174

  Thurlow, Edward, 1st Baron 218, 387–8

  Tomkin, Mr 60

  Townshend family 15

  Trèves 344, 345–6

  Troide, Prof. Lars xviii

  Twining, Revd Thomas 74, 88, 189, 273

  Twiss, Richard 68, 71

  ‘Urania’ (Alexander d’Arblay) 376

  Vernet, Carl and Horace 351

  Vesey, Elizabeth 133, 135, 180, 181

  Vickery, Amanda 191

  Vioménil, Comte de 335

  Virginia (Crisp) 37–8, 39, 224, 225, 261

  Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de 64

  Waddell, J.N. 57–8

  Waddington, Mary Ann (née Port) 261, 314, 344

  Walker, Ralph S. 88

  Walpole, Horace 124, 154, 180, 192, 202, 264

  Wanderer, The (FB) 166, 185, 208, 291, 293

  autobiographical elements 81, 89, 152

  composition 304, 309, 315–16

  dedication 43, 53, 304, 320–2, 374

 

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