Seven volumes of The Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay, published between 18, and two volumes of The Early Diary of Francis Burney, not published until 1907, reveal her pert and astute observations about fashionable life in Georgian England. In 1832 Fanny Burney published three volumes of the Memoirs of Dr. Camilla teaches the lessons of propriety, prudence, and fortitude to a young girl The Wanderer depicts the difficulties faced by a penniless and unprotected spinster trying to earn her living in England. Melodramatic scenes, revealing the influence of the contemporary stage, frame Cecilia Beverley's efforts to marry young Delvile.Ĭamilla (1796) and The Wanderer (1814) lack narrative interest and are perhaps better considered courtesy books than novels.
While the immensely popular Ceciliaaga in shows Burney's mastery of plot, it is both less comic and more Her priceless record of life in the late 18th and early 19th centuries is preserved in what she called an "immense Mass of Manuscripts," consisting of diaries, journals, notebooks, and a voluminous correspondence begun in her fifteenth year.īefore publishing her second novel, Cecilia, in 1782, Burney had written and abandoned a comedy entitled The Witlings. d'Arblay, a French refugee, with whom she lived in France from 1802 to 1812.
From 1787 to 1791 she served as second keeper of the robes to Queen Charlotte. An effective novel told in letters, it displays Burney's wit, knowledge of English society, technical versatility, sentiment, interest in contemporary theater, and gift for depicting character.Įvelina won Burney admission to the salons of the great and famous, many of whom she described vividly in her diaries and journals. The heroine's search for a father and a husband exposes both the vanity and affectation of life among the upper class and the vulgarity and lack of feeling which she associates with low life. Although she had begun to compose Evelina as early as 1767, she did not publish it until 1778, and then only anonymously. She captured London's literary society with the publication of Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, the best of her four extant novels. Charles Burney, the distinguished historian of music. She was also an important chronicler of English manners, morals, and society.įanny Burney, originally named Frances, was the daughter of Dr.
The English novelist and diarist Fanny Burney (1752-1840) was one of the most popular novelists of the late 18th century.
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