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67. Fanny Burney Diary, August 1789, MS Berg, quoted in Hemlow, p.211
68. DL 4, p.83
69. Fanny Burney Diary, May 1790, MS Berg, quoted in Hemlow, p.212
70. DL 4, p.392
71. Charles Burney to Charles Burney junior, 21 July 1790, quoted in Hemlow, p.215
72. DL 4, p.437
73. Ibid, p.451
74. Ibid, p.437
75. Thraliana 2, p.821
76. Ibid
77. DL 4, p.436
78. Ibid, p.413
79. Ibid, pp.478–9
80. Complete Plays 2, p.55
81. MS Berg, quoted in Hemlow, p.221
82. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works (1988), Chapter 5
83. Complete Plays 2, p.83
84. MS Berg, quoted in Doody, p.195
85. Elberta, Complete Plays 2, p.244; Hubert de Vere, ibid, p.114
86. JL 1, p.74
87. Ibid, p.4
CHAPTER 10: Taking Sides
1. JL 1, p.15
2. Susan Burney Phillips, journal, December 1791, MS Berg, quoted in JL 1, p.16n
3. JL 1, p.18
4. Ibid, p.16n
5. Ibid, p.18
6. Mem 3, p.149
7. JL 1, p.196
8. Susan Burney Phillips to Fanny Burney, October 1792, DL 5, p.116
9. The Times, 12 December 1792
10. DL 5, p.139
11. For résumés of Monsieur d’Arblay’s military career see introduction to JL 2, which quotes a document in the Berg Collection drawn up in 1793, and Georges Six, Dictionnaire biographique des généraux et amiraux français de la révolution et de l’empire (1934), vol. 2
12. ‘Je ne vois point d’espérance de tranquillité dans ma malheureuse Patrie pendant mes Jours. Le Peuple est tellement vitié par l’impunité du crime – par les desordres de tout espéce – par l’habitude de voir couler le sang.’ Susan Burney Phillips, Diary, MSS v.4672–5, 16 December 1792, MS Berg, quoted in JL 2, p.3n
13. JL 2, p.3
14. Ibid, pp.5–6
15. ‘“Est-ce-vrai” cries M. de Narbonne, que vous conserve encore quelque amitié, M. Lock, pour ceux qui ont la honte et le malheur d’être né françois [sic]?”’ Ibid, pp.8–9.
16. Ibid, p.8
17. Ibid, p.10
18. JL 1, p.247
19. JL 2, p.13 n5
20. Ibid, p.15
21. Ibid, Appendix II, p.190
22. ‘Je n’ai jamais eu une envie veritable d’ écrire, de parler, d’entendre La Langue françoise [sic] jusqu’ici.’ Ibid, p.189.
23. Ibid, p.14
24. Ibid, p.190
25. Ibid, p.188
26. Ibid, pp.17–18
27. Ibid, p.14
28. Ibid, p.21
29. Ibid, p.22
30. JL 1, p.47
31. Ibid, p.49
32. The traveller, Moravian and later book-seller; see ED 1, pp.304–5 and JL 1, p.9on
33. JL 2, p.25
34. Ibid, p.26
35. Ibid, p.29
36. Ibid, p.26
37. ‘Le cri est partout, ‘“Elle n’est ni Emigree, ni banni – – c’est M. de Narbonne qui la séduit de son Mari et de ses Enfans!” – – C’est vainement que je parle du moeurs de son pais; on ne me réponde jamais que “Elle est Femme, elle est Mère!”’ Ibid, p.31.
38. ‘Rien n’egale sa bienfaisance, son humanité, son obligeance, et le besoin qu’elle a de l’exercer.’ Ibid
39. ‘a ma femme, a ma soeur’. Ibid, p.32
40. Quoted in Linda Kelly, Juniper Hall (1991), p.17
41. JL 2, p.204
42. Ibid, pp.41–2
43. Ibid, p.41n
44. Susan Burney Phillips to Fanny Burney, 4 April 1793, MS Berg, quoted in JL 2, p.42n
45. JL 2, p.50
46. Ibid, p.65
47. ‘ce n’est pas – actuellement – vôtre nom?’ Ibid, p.62
48. Ibid, p.68
49. Ibid, p.70
50. Mem 3, p.180
51. JL 2, p.80
52. Ibid, p.81
53. Ibid, p.75
54. Ibid, p.52
55. ‘brusque … Je me jette par ci – par la, – par de tous parts – dans l’instant!’ Ibid, p.103
56. Ibid, p.102
57. Ibid, pp.138–9
58. JL 1, p.75
59. Quoted in Manwaring, op. cit., p.186
60. JL 2, p.129
61. Ibid, pp.129–30
62. Ibid, p.130
63. Ibid, p.136
64. Ibid, p.148
65. Ibid, pp.157–8n
66. Ibid, pp.140–1
CHAPTER 11: The Cabbage-Eaters
1. Maria Rishton to Susan Burney Phillips, 14 August 1793, MS Berg
2. JL 3, p.8
3. Ibid, p.2
4. Ibid, p.45
5. See family tree of the Piochard d’Arblays, in JL 6
6. JL 3, p.14
7. Ibid, pp.24–32
8. Brief Reflections Relative to the Emigrant French Clergy, p.24
9. Ibid, p.iv
10. Hannah More to Horace Walpole, 18 August 1792, Horace Walpole’s Correspondence (ed. Lewis), vol. 31, p.370
11. JL 3, p.48
12. Ibid, p.49
13. Ibid, p.36 n2
14. Ibid, p.92
15. Ibid, p.93
16. Ibid, p.103
17. Ibid, p.99
18. Ibid, n9
19. Sarah Siddons to Hester Thrale Piozzi, 25 March 1795, John Rylands Library Eng. MS 582.5, quoted in W. Wright Roberts, ‘Charles and Fanny Burney in the Light of the New Thrale Correspondence in the John Rylands Library’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol 16, no. 1 ( January 1932)
20. Morning Herald, 23 March 1795
21. See JL 3, Appendix A
22. For the history of the revisions to these plays over the next three decades, see Complete Plays 2
23. JL 3, p.117
24. Camilla, p.253
25. JL 3, p.177
26. Ibid, p.157
27. Hemlow, p.255
28. Camilla, pp.375, 484
29. Ibid, p.9
30. Ibid, p.238
31. Ibid, pp.13–14
32. Ibid, p.745
33. JL 3, p.137
34. Camilla, p.875
35. Epstein, op. cit., p.135
36. JL 3, p.130
37. Ibid, p. 140
38. Ibid, Appendix B
39. Analytical Review, August 1796
40. JL 3, Appendix B
41. Ibid, p.222
42. Ibid, p.206
43. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 5
44. Camilla, p.178
45. Ibid, p.255
46. Ibid, p.756
47. Though, as Pat Rogers has pointed out, Mrs Thrale used the phrase too, in her travel sketches and verse; see Pat Rogers, ‘Sposi in Surrey’, Times Literary Supplement, 23 August 1996
48. Ibid
49. Ibid
50. Jane Austen’s Letters, ed. D. Le Faye (1995), p.26
51. JL 3, P.79
52. Ibid, pp.204–5
53. Charles Burney to Fanny Burney d’Arblay, September 1796, MS Berg, quoted in JL 3, p.201n
54. Susan Burney Phillips to Fanny Burney d’Arblay, 11–15 September 1796, MS Berg, quoted in JL 3, p.200n
55. JL 3, p.264n
56. Charles Burney to Fanny Burney d’Arblay, September 1796, MS Berg, quoted in JL 3, p.201n
57. Charles Burney to C.I. Latrobe, 14 November 1796, quoted in Lonsdale, p.383; and Charles Burney to Thomas Twining, 6 December 1796, quoted in Hemlow, p. 278
58. JL 3, p.218
59. Ibid, p.212
60. Ibid, p.217
61. Charles Burney to Thomas Twining, 6 December 1796, op. cit.
62. JL 3, p.284
63. Ibid, p.243
64. Ibid, pp.223, 207.
65. Plan of the interior of Camilla Cottage by Monsieur d’Arblay, MS Berg. See plates section
67. JL 4, p.51
68. Ibid, p.39
69. JL 3, P.336
70. Complete Plays 1, pp.171, 179
71. Ibid, p.188
72. JL 4, p.119
73. Ibid
74. Quoted in Hemlow, p.282
75. Sarah Harriet Burney to Anna Grosvenor, 28 May 1835, The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, op. cit., p.400
76. IL 4. P.275
77. Ibid, p.286
78. Ibid, pp.345. 347
79. Charles Burney junior to Charles Burney, 8 January 1800, MS Barrett, quoted in JL 4, p.381n
80. Charles Burney junior to Charles Burney, 6 January 1800, MS Barrett, quoted in JL 4, p.381n
81. JL 4, p.386
82. Ibid, p.382
CHAPTER 12: Winds and Waves
1. JL 4, p.387
2. Ibid, p.386
3. Mem 3, p.295
4. JL 4, p.410
5. Ibid, p.384
6. Ibid
7. Ibid
8. Ibid, p.411
9. ‘Scrapbook’, Charles Burney junior to Fanny Burney d’Arblay, 30 October 1799, MS Berg
10. Quoted in Hemlow, p.275
11. Morning Chronicle, 29 January 1800
12. JL 4. P.394
13. Ibid, p.395
14. Ibid
15. JL 5, p.7
16. Ibid, p.1
17. Ibid, p.87
18. Ibid, p.95
19. Ibid, p.96
20. Ibid, Introduction
21. Complete Plays 1, p.245
22. Ibid, p.283
23. JL 4, PP.394–5
24. The Stage and Television Today, 11 November 1993, quoted in Complete Plays 1, p.291
25. Complete Plays 1, p.379
26. Ibid, p.380
27. Ibid, p.312
28. Ibid, p.296
29. Ibid, p.351
30. JL 5, p.188.
31. Mem 3, p.311
32. JL 5, p.232
33. Ibid, p.290
34. Ibid, p.307
35. Ibid, p.313
36. JL 6, p.797
37. JL 5, p.355
38. Ibid, p.343
39. Ibid, p.355
40. Ibid, p.378
41. Ibid, p.322
42. Ibid, p.407
43. Ibid
44. An Englishman in Paris, 1803: The Journal of Bertie Greatheed, ed. Bury and Barry (1953), p.147
45. JL 5, P.446
46. Ibid, p.327
47. JL 6, p.528
48. Ibid, p.801
49. Ibid, p.550
50. Ibid, p.551
51. Quoted in Hemlow, p.354
52. The Wanderer, p.4
53. JL 6, p.585
54. Ibid, p.600
55. See O.H. and S.D. Wangensteen in The Rise of Surgery (1978), and Roy Porter and Anthony R. Moore in ‘Preanesthetic Mastectomy: A Patient’s Experience’, Surgery 83 (February 1978), pp.200–5. The possibly benign nature of Fanny Burney d’Arblay’s tumour was also suggested to me independently by Dr Annie Bartlett, for whose professional opinion I am grateful
56. ‘A Mastectomy’ [of 30 September 1811], JL 6, pp.596–616
57. Ibid, p.613
58. See Porter and Moore, ‘Preanesthetic Mastectomy: A Patient’s Experience’, op. cit.
CHAPTER 13: The Wanderer
1. JL 6, p.706
2. Ibid, p.715
3. Joseph A. Grau, Fanny Burney: An Annotated Bibliography (1981), p.82, Maria Edgeworth to Sophy Ruxton, 16 May 1813
4. JL 7, p.507
5. Mem 3, p.402
6. John Rylands Library Eng. MS, Clement Francis to Hester Thrale Piozzi, 3 September 1814, quoted in JL 7, p.11n
7. JL 7, p.12
8. Roberts, op. cit, p.21
9. Extracts from the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the year 1783 to 1852, ed. Lady Theresa Lewis (1866), vol. 2, p.508
10. Roberts, op. cit., p.21
11. JL 4, p.302
12. Quoted in Hemlow, p.333
13. JL 7, P.34
14. T.J. Hogg, Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1906)
15. The Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell ed. Beattie, vol. 2 (1850), p.225
16. JL 7, p.171
17. Ibid, pp.181–2
18. Dedication to The Wanderer, pp.9–10
19. British Critic 1 (April 1814), P.374
20. fane Austen’s Letters, op. cit., p.227
21. JL 7, p.195
22. Ibid, p.33n
23. Ibid, p.338
24. Ibid, p.339n
25. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, op. cit., p.172
26. JL 7, p.259
27. Mem 3, p.426
28. JL 7, p.323
29. Ibid, p.352
30. The Wanderer, p.8
31. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1972 edn), p.58
32. The Wanderer, p.7
33. Ibid, p.128
34. In a letter from Mrs Thrale to Dr Johnson of 28 April 1780, The Letters of Samuel Johnson, op. cit., vol. 2, p.350
35. The Wanderer, p.325
36. Ibid, p.289
37. Ibid, p.873
38. DL 1, p.400
39. The Wanderer, pp.175, 177
40. Macaulay, Literary Essays, op. cit., p.586
41. Reviews in The Anti-Jacobin 46, pp.347–51. and European Magazine, November 1814
42. Quarterly Review 11 (April 1814), p.124
43. Sir Walter Scott to Matthew Weld Hartstonge, 18 July 1814, The Letters of Sir Walter Scott, op. cit., vol. 3, p.465
44. Lord Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814, see Grau, op. cit., p.66
45. William Weller Pepys to Hannah More, 22 June 1814, quoted in Grau, op. cit., p.89
46. The Wanderer, p.676
47. Ibid, p.354
48. Hemlow, p.339
49. George Saintsbury, The English Novel; see Grau, op. cit., p.139
50. Alexander d’Arblay, ‘Observations on the last work of the Author of Evelina intitled “the Wanderer”’; ‘87 miscellaneous holographs’, MS Berg
51. JL 7, p.274
52. Ibid, p.387
53. Ibid, p.396
54. Ibid, p.401
55. Ibid, p.468
56. JL 8, p.340
57. Ibid, p.352
58. Ibid, pp.355–6
59. An Englishman in Paris, 1803, op. cit., PP–38, 75
60. Ibid, p.75
61. JL 8, p.142
62. Ibid, p.356
63. ‘Ma chère amie, tout est perdu! – je ne puis entrer dans aucun detail. de grace partez – le plutôt sera le mieux.’ Ibid, p.58
64. Ibid, p.379
65. Ibid, p.389
66. Ibid, p.70
67. Ibid, p.108
68. Ibid, p.104
69. Ibid, pp.199–200
70. Ibid, p.419
71. Ibid, pp.183–4
72. Ibid
73. Ibid, p.169
74. Ibid, p.213
75. Ibid, p.431
76. Ibid, p.433
77. See Henri-Marie Ghislain, Souvenirs (1840), vol. 1
78. JL 8, p.439
79. Ibid, p.443
80. Ibid, p.441
81. Ibid, p.215
82. Ibid, p.445
83. Ibid, p.223
84. Ibid, p.446
85. Ibid, p.238
86. Ibid, p.273
87. Ibid, p.447
88. Ibid, p.450
89. Ibid, p.461
90. Ibid, p.530
91. Ibid, p.329
92. Ibid, p.114
93. Ibid, p.233
94. Alexander d’Arblay, ‘87 miscellaneous holographs’, MS Berg, op. cit., folder 1
95. The Wanderer, p.230
96. JL 8, pp.285, 284
97. Printed, as is the ‘Waterloo Journal’, in JL 8
98. JL 8, p.543
99. Ibid, p.504
100. Ibid, pp.505–6
101. Ibid, p.506
102. Ibid, p.522
&nbs
p; 103. Ibid, p.535
104. Ibid, p.536
105. ‘M. de Talleyrand m’a oublié: mais on n’ oublie pas M. de Talleyrand.’
106. JL 8, p.539
CHAPTER 14: Keeping Life Alive
1. JL 9, p.2
2. Hemlow, p.384
3. Hayward, op. cit., vol. 2, p.339
4. JL 11, p.206
5. Thraliana 2, p.76on
6. Hemlow, p.387
7. JL 9, p.77
8. Hemlow, p.388
9. JL 9, p.76
10. Hemlow, p.389
11. JL 10, pp.485, 537
12. ‘Tout le monde dira à Alex qui est sa mere, mais – qu’il n’oublie pas qui a été son pere! C’est pour cela que je lui ai consacré et fait faire se Portrait.’ JL 11, p.14
13. I am indebted to Dr Scott Ashley for this suggestion
14. JL 10, p.607
15. Ibid
16. Ibid, p.686
17. John Jones, The Mysteries of Opium Reveal’d, quoted in Alethea Hayter, Opium and the Romantic Imagination, p.24
18. JL 10, p.699
19. Ibid, pp.701–3
20. See her later account in JL 11, p.552
21. E. Le Fevre to F. Leverton Harris, 27 January 1912, MS letter, grangerised edition of Madame d’Arblay’s Diary and Letters, National Portrait Gallery
22. Diary, MS Berg
23. JL 11, p.542
24. JL 12, p.593
25. ‘La mer, ma chere Fanny, est entre nous, mais bientôt je 1’espere nous serons reunis, et d’ailleurs rien ne sera jamais entre nos coeurs; j’en jure par le mien.’ Monsieur d’Arblay to Fanny Burney d’Arblay, 16 June 1817, JL 9, p.436
26. JL 9, p.392
27. Text of memorial printed in Mem 3, p.436
28. ‘Report from the Committee on petition of Trustees of the British Museum relating to the Collection of the late Dr Burney’, House of Commons, 17 April 1818
29. DL 6, p.347
30. See editorial notes by Warren Derry in JL 10, p.587
31. JL 10, p.850
32. Ibid, p.779
33. In the Berg Collection
34. JL 10, p.781
35. Ibid, p.879
36. Ibid, p.880
37. ‘Je ne sais si ce sera le dernier mot – mais, ce sera la derniere pensée – Notre Reunion!’ Ibid, p.907
38. Ibid, p.908
39. Ibid, pp.908–9
40. JL 2, pp.41–2
41. JL 11, p.39
42. Ibid, p.29
43. Ibid, p.36n
44. Ibid, p.15
45. Ibid, p.81
46. Ibid, p.170
47. JL 12, p.725
48. JL 11, p.192
49. Ibid, p.190
50. Ibid, p.191
51. Ibid, p.186
52. Ibid
53. Ibid, p.191
54. Details of this incident are in a letter from Charlotte Burney Francis Broome to Charlotte Barrett, 29 July 1817, MS Berg
55. Now in the Berg Collection