qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Charles Burney
Standard Name: Burney, Charles,, the younger
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Meeke | Of her Burney stepbrothers, Charles
fell into disgrace for stealing books from his university library at the same time that Elizabeth fell into disgrace for her runaway marriage. He later wrote highly favourable reviews for... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Burney | The next brother, Charles
, was expelled from Cambridge University
for stealing books from the library, but eventually became respected as a clergyman and a scholar. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Cassandra Cooke | Cassandra's cousin Jane Austen
criticised the household management of Samuel Cooke (who was her godfather), judging him a disagreable, fidgetty master to his servants. |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Reynolds | Frances Burney
comments on FR
less as a victim than as a joker with a mask of naiveté. She thought that Reynolds got upset too easily over trivia and was hamperingly indecisive. She reported her... |
| Friends, Associates | Caroline Herschel | Though CH
recorded in summer 1774 that she had lost her only female acquaintance (apparently because her work for her brother left her no time for social life), she later met Charles
and Frances Burney |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Burney | Bibliographer James Raven
notes a crescendo in novelistic echoes of FB
's works during the 1780s. Burney's brother Charles
, for instance, noted borrowings from both Evelina and Cecilia in his review for the Monthly... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Meeke | Reviewers mostly noted the work's (alleged) translated status. The Critical Review pointed out that the plot's prejudices of high birth were no longer characteristic of post-revolutionary France. Nonetheless it pronounced the book an entertaining and... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Meeke | The Critical Review, while noting the absence of originality, distinguished this work sharply from common or inferior novels. It praised the incidents, style, authorial comments, and freedom from tiresome and impertinent digressive episodes. qtd. in Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 684 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | Charles Burney the younger
reviewed this novel quite favourably for the Monthly Review. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 364 |
| Publishing | Sarah Harriet Burney | While struggling to finish this work, SHB
called it my own eternal rubbish Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997. 130 Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997. 153 |
| Textual Production | Frances Burney | Thomas Harris
, manager of Covent Garden Theatre
, informed FB
's brother Charles
that he planned to stage her comedy Love and Fashion in March 1800. Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. Editor Sabor, Peter, William Pickering, 1995, 2 vols. 1: 105 |
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