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  <about><![CDATA[Also known as Fanny Burney and, after her marriage, as Madame d’Arblay. Frances Burney was a novelist, diarist and playwright. In total, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty volumes of journals and letters.]]></about>
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  <id type="integer">37638</id>
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    <![CDATA[Evelina]]>
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    <![CDATA[Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London.  As she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably, love, Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in an image-conscious and often cruel world where social snobbery and sexual aggression are played out in the public arenas of pleasure-gardens, theatre visits, and balls.  But Evelina's innocence also makes her a shrewd commentator on the excesses and absurdities of manners and social ambitions--as well as attracting the attention of the eminently eligible Lord Orville. Evelina, comic and shrewd, is at once a guide to fashionable London, a satirical attack on the new consumerism, an investigation of women's position in the late eighteenth century, and a love story.  The new introduction and full notes to this edition help make this richness all the more readily available to a modern reader.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1778</published>
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    <![CDATA[Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress]]>
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    <![CDATA[Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy, humanity, and social analysis. Controversial in its time, this eighteenth-century novel seems entirely fresh in relation to late twentieth-century concerns.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1782</published>
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    <![CDATA[Camilla]]>
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    <![CDATA[First published in 1796, Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people-Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the daughters of a country parson, and their cousin Indiana Lynmere-and, in particular, with the love affair between Camilla herself and her eligible suitor, Edgar Mandlebert. The path of true love, however, is strewn with intrigue, contretemps and misunderstanding. An enormously popular eighteenth-century novel, Camilla is touched at many points by the advancing spirit of romanticism. 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.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Wanderer]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Wanderer or Female Difficulties is the tale of a penniless emigree from Revolutionary France trying to earn her living in England while guarding her own secrets. Combining the best elements of the Gothic and historical novels, this newly appreciated work is an extraordinary piece of Romantic fiction. Burney's tough comedy offers a satiric view of complacent middle-class insularity that echoes Godwin and Wollstonecraft's attacks on the English social structure. The problems of the new feminism and of the old anti-feminism are explored in the relationship between the heroine and her English patroness and rival, the Wollstonecraftian Elinor Joddrel, and the racism inherent within both the French and British empires is exposed when the emigree disguises herself as a black woman.    This edition is fully annotated with appendices on the French Revolution, race relations, amusements, and geography and a previously unpublished manuscript revealing the connection between The Wanderer and Camilla.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1814</published>
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    <![CDATA[Journals and Letters: Burney, Frances]]>
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Such an entertaining read . . . a diarist ranking alongside Pepys for her insights into the world in which she lived.&quot; (<em>The Guardian</em>, London)<br/><br/> Written during a seventy-year period, from 1768 to 1839, Frances Burney's letters and journals provide a unique insight into her life and times. Distinguished by their remarkable range and variety, they record Burney's experience of English court life and later, in France, the final stages of the Napoleonic Wars. From the self-centered and irreverent writings of a precocious young girl to the more sober reflections of a mature woman, this collection demonstrates Burney's marvelous ability to capture the changing times around her and create brilliantly candid portraits of those she encountered during the course of her eventful life.<br/><br/> This edition includes an informative introduction, as well as a chronology, selected reading list, index, and full contextual annotations. The versions of the texts in this collection are based on the manuscripts or printed sources that Burney herself approved.<br/><br/> Edited by Peter Sabor and Lars E. Troide. ]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1972</published>
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  <id type="integer">195573</id>
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    <![CDATA[The Witlings and The Woman-Hater]]>
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    <![CDATA[This Broadview edition pairs two of Frances Burney's linked comedies. They both present the character of Lady Smatter, a &quot;femme savante&quot; whose lineage may be traced back to Molière; they both centre on the misfortunes of the &quot;elle&quot; figure, the dispossessed heiress and wife who appears frequently in Burney's fiction; and they both criticize a culture of misogyny that breeds suspicion and resentment. The Witlings, lighter and more comic, derives from late seventeenth-century conventions; The Woman-Hater, more melodramatic, both expresses and warns against the excessive sensibility of romanticism. Together, these two plays constitute a miniature history of English drama from the Restoration to the French Revolution and beyond.   <p>This edition contains a valuable selection of appendices, including: Burney's &quot;Epilogue to Gerilda&quot;; letters and diary entries; contemporary writings on comedy; and Burney's cast-list for The Woman-Hater.</p>]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1993</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[A Known Scribbler: Frances Burney on Literary Life]]>
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    <![CDATA[Frances Burney's journals and letters, composed between 1768 and 1839, contain a unique account of the creative, social, and commercial ambitions and achievements of an eighteenth-century female writer. Focusing on Burney's literary life, this selection from her journals and correspondence combines Burney's own accounts of the creation of her popular novels, her aspirations for her dramatic writings, and her reflections upon her letters and journals as literary productions in their own right.   <p>In addition to Burney's letters and journal entries, this Broadview edition includes: selections from Burney's Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy (1793) and Memoirs of Doctor Burney (1832); letters by family and friends about her literary activities; and contemporary reviews of The Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay.</p>]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2002</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[A Busy Day]]>
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    <![CDATA[<em>A Busy Day</em> is a love story, as well as a witty and wonderfully observed satire on class and greed by the most popular woman writer of her time. The scene is London in the summer of 1800. In the course of just one busy day, we are gleefully tumbled into a world of frustrated love, mistaken identity, snobbery, and downright vulgar bad manners. ]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1800</published>
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    <![CDATA[Cecilia: Or  Memoirs of an Heiress ¿ Volume 1]]>
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    <![CDATA[Cecilia  this fair traveller  had lately entered into the one-and-twentieth year of her age. Her ancestors had been rich farmers in the county of Suffolk  though her father  in whom a spirit of elegance had supplanted the rapacity of wealth  had spent his time as a private country gentleman  satisfied  without increasing his store  to live upon what he inherited from the labours of his predecessors.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2007</published>
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    <![CDATA[The Witlings]]>
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