The English novelist and diarist Fanny Burney (1752-1840) was one of the most popular novelists of the late 18th century. She was also an important chronicler of English manners, morals, and society. Fanny Burney, originally named Frances, was the daught...
Frances Burney is an important British comic novelist: she is one of the first of the women writers whose names have been repeatedly alluded to in literary histories, inscribed in biographical dictionaries, and remembered by a reading public. Yet the nam...
Frances Burney uses inscription in her novel 'Evelina' to invite her readers' attention to her anonymity in the literary world. This allows her a position from which to comment on the repressive nature of patriarchal authority structures and social convention . Burney uses the...
An analysis of Frances Burney's 'Evelina' looks into the 18th-century middle class attitude towards the arts. The novel presents three functions of art: for moral instruction, enlightenment and for pleasure. Of the three, Burney looks at the third as with a satirical eye, for...
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