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Frances Burney (known as Fanny by the family and friends), was born on June 13, 1752, in Chapel Street, King’s Lynn, Norfolk. She was the third of six highly talented children – four authors, one admiral and a precocious musician – raised by Charles and Esther Burney.
10 de mai. de 2024 · Abstract. Frances Burney’s (1752–1840) first play The Witlings (1779) is a comedy-of-manners that satirizes the upper class and literary pretensions. When Lady Smatter—who runs a pretentious literary salon—opposes her nephew Beaufort’s marriage to the recently impoverished Cecilia, the young couple must navigate her manipulations and ...
Há 4 dias · 1768 BURNEY, FANNY. The early journals and letters of Fanny Burney, ed. L E Troide. Vols. 1–3, 1768–79. Oxford: OUP, 1994. 3 vols. [1768–1840.] 73. 1770 LICHTENBERG, GEORG CHRISTOPH, the elder. Lichtenberg's visits to England (1770 and 1774–5) as described in his letters and diaries, ed. M M Mare and W H Quarrell.
10 de mai. de 2024 · Burney's enthusiasm makes the most of her experiences and she describes characters and scenes with all the genius displayed in her novels. Author Frances Burney, Betty Rizzo.
22 de mai. de 2024 · As in Evelina, Fanny Burney weaves into her novel strands of light and dark, comic episodes and gothic shudders, and creates a pattern of social and moral dilemmas which emphasize and illuminate the gap between generations.
Há 5 dias · Branwell Brontë, self-portrait, 1840. The Brontës ( / ˈbrɒntiz /) were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849), are well-known poets and ...
22 de mai. de 2024 · Burney, Frances: Evelina Roman Neuübersetzung Übers. von Rebecca Scharpenberg Hrsg. und mit Nachw. von Mascha Hansen Geb., bedruckter Einband mit Schutzumschlag, Lesebändchen. Format 12,5 × 20,5 cm 553 S. ISBN: 978-3-15-011414-8
