Bibliography

Grau, Joseph A. Fanny Burney: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1981, 210 p.

Provides a detailed primary and secondary bibliography.

Biographies

Dobson, Austin. Fanny Burney. London: Macmillan, 1903, 216 p.

Presents an important early biography, the standard until Joyce Hemlow's 1958 study.

Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1988, 441 p.

Offers an updated biography of Burney by an important scholar in the history of the novel; takes a psychoanalytic approach and emphasizes Burney's relationship with her family.

Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958, 528 p.

Provides a biography by a foremost Burney scholar.

Criticism

Agress, Lynne. "Wives and Servants: Proper Conduct for One's Proper Place." In The Feminine Irony: Women on Women in Early-Nineteenth-Century English Literature, pp. 114-45. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1978.

Contends that Evelina offers the message that a young woman must...