Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Frances Burney
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Standard Name: Burney, Frances
Birth Name: Frances Burney
Nickname: Fanny
Nickname: The Old Lady
Married Name: Frances D'Arblay
Indexed Name: Madame D'Arblay
Pseudonym: A Sister of the Order
Used Form: the author of Evelina
Used Form: the author of Evelina and Cecilia
Used Form: the author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla
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, renowned as a novelist in her youth and middle age, outlived her high reputation; her fourth and last novel (published in 1814) was her least well received. Her diaries and letters, posthumously published, were greeted with renewed acclaim. During the late twentieth century the re-awakening of interest in her fiction and the rediscovery of her plays revealed her as a woman of letters to be reckoned with. Today her reputation in the academic world stands high, and productions of her plays are no longer isolated events.
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This strikingly inventive and ingenious tale seems to owe a good deal to Mary Shelley
's Frankenstein (though Shelley receives no tribute in passing, as do R. B. Sheridan
, Byron
, and especially Scott
Intertextuality and Influence
Sarah Green
This preface is headed by two Latin words (one with a faulty grammatical ending) from Ovid
's description of chaos. SG
slams both male and female novelists, chiefly authors of gothic or horrid novels and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
A few statements are footnoted to their originators, whom EPW
has either paraphrased or versified: Sherlock and Lavater
are her favourites, but she also draws on lighter writers like Horace
, Swift
, and Coleridge
Intertextuality and Influence
Beatrix Potter
BP
was not content with her success as a children's writer, but hankered to establish herself as an author for adults. Her references in her private writings to Burney
(a propos of her first appearance...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Austen
Despite some later revision, Northanger Abbey is essentially (like its ancestor Susan) a novel of the 1790s, a spoof of both the gothic and romance modes which were then all the rage. Austen's specific...
Intertextuality and Influence
Margaret Holford
The novel shows considerable skill but an excess of words and of characters. Selima, daughter of a clandestine marriage, is adopted by the old maid Anne Aubrey after being brought up initially by an old...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Austen
Anne Elliot, heroine of Persuasion, gets a second chance to marry the man she had rejected nine years before under pressure from her elders. His prospects of a self-made career did not at that...
Intertextuality and Influence
Rachel Hunter
Rachel, an heiress, gives her heart to a poor man whose family oppose the match for fear of being seen as mercenary. She is also something of a social rebel, a feminist (fond of gender-bending...
Intertextuality and Influence
Charlotte Smith
Three women help each other escape male persecution; the distressed heroine gets an ideal husband, Godolphin, who restores the social status which her illegitimate birth had robbed her of. Though the castle where Emmeline grows...
Intertextuality and Influence
Lady Caroline Lamb
The title-page of volume one of Graham Hamilton quotes Burns
; the second quotes Swift
denouncing scandal. Though quieter, this novel again displays splendid satirical energy. It contains only one lyric (written by Nathan for...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Collier
The Monthly Review was moderately laudatory about the Art of Tormenting; it picked up on the relationship to Swift
.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
8 (1753): 274
JC
's commonplace-book commented wryly on a man who declared that...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Ham
The story, set in Anglo-Saxon England, is that treated by Frances Burney
in her only play to reach the stage during her lifetime, Edwy and Elgiva. EH
was too young as well as...
Intertextuality and Influence
Nancy Mitford
This is another worldly satirical comedy. The parents in question are divided by nationality (Grace is English, Charles is French) and class (bourgeoisie and nobility). Their son Sigismund, or Sigi, delights in setting one against...
Intertextuality and Influence
Amelia Bristow
The Maniac deals with the effects of the Irish Rebellion. The narrator, Albert, has gone mad after returning home to find his house sacked and wife and children murdered. His sister, Emma, also dies and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Lamb
The littlest girl of all is already worried by social pressures to conform: she discloses the shameful fact that the flowers she loves best are the common buttercup, and the daisy which is reckoned the...
