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Автор: Claire Harman Название: Fanny Burney ISBN: 0006550363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006550365 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: On 13 June 1767, her 15th birthday, Fanny Burney made a bonfire of all her works, "with the sincere intention to extinguish for ever in their ashes her scribbling propensity". Fanny was genuinely worried that she might turn into an author, a fate incompatible - for a woman - with respectability. Her hope was in vain. Not only was she to write four novels ("Evelina", "Cecilia", "Camilla" and "The Wanderer"), but she also kept a voluminous diary for the next 70 years and was a prolific letter-writer. Daughter of the eminent music historian Dr Charles Burney; editor of his infamous Memoirs; friend of Sheridan, Garrick, Burke, Boswell and Johnson; second keeper of the robes to George III's Queen Charlotte; wife to a refugee French aristocrat; detained for ten years in revolutionary France; victim of a mastectomy without anaesthetic. Fanny Burney's life was as eventful as any novel. This text is the biography of Fanny Burney, one of the the first truly literary woman novelists in English, who exercised a profound influence on Jane Austen and whose own life, spanning the years 1752 to 1840, embraced the worlds of music, literature, politics, English Court life and the French Revolution.
Автор: Burney Frances Название: Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782) Novel ISBN: 154531392X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781545313923 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 5245.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Cecilia, subtitled Memoirs of an Heiress, is the second novel by English author Frances Burney, set in 1779 and published in 1782. The novel, about the trials and tribulations of a young upper class woman who must negotiate London society for the first time and who falls in love with a social superior, belongs to the genre of the novel of manners. A panoramic novel of eighteenth-century London, Cecilia was highly successful with at least 51 editions.Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress was published in July 1782. Frances Burney began working on the novel in 1780, after her father, Dr. Charles Burney, and her literary mentor, Samuel Crisp, suppressed her play entitled The Witlings. Her father had concerns that the play, a comedic satire of bluestocking(s), would offend "real people" whom he depended on for artistic patronage, particularly Elizabeth Montagu. This disappointment and the pressure to produce a second novel in order to capitalize on the success of her first work Evelina, seems to have placed considerable strain on Burney, and may have colored the tone and content of Cecilia. 3] It seems that the Cecilia Stanley of The Witlings became the Cecilia Beverley of Cecilia.Cecilia opens with the beautiful 20-year-old heroine, Cecilia Beverley, saying goodbye to her country home to go on a journey to London. She is an orphan heiress ( 3000 a year as soon as she becomes of age, with a smaller personal fortune of 10,000). A stipulation in her uncle's will requires whomever she marries to take her surname, that is, become Mr. Beverley. Cecilia goes to live with one of her three guardians, Mr. Harrel, but is invited first to her friend Mr. Monckton's house for breakfast. Mr. Monckton has married an old, ugly woman for her money, but secretly regrets his decision after meeting Cecilia-a woman who combines wealth with beauty and youth. Mr. Monckton wants to marry Cecilia as soon as his own wife dies. He is afraid that Cecilia might fall in love or forget him while in London, and warns her continually to be careful of all 'temptations.' At his house she meets Mr. Morrice, a young lawyer who tries to flatter everyone who is important; Captain Aresby, who likes to compliment ladies in fancy words; and Mr. Belfield, a clever, lively, proud young man who can't settle down. Mr. Monckton's wife and her poor companion, Miss Bennet, who helps Mr. Monckton with his schemes, are also there. Cecilia notes the sharp behavior of an old man sitting quietly in the corner. She also does not understand why Lady Margaret (Mr. Monckton's wife) dislikes her so much. Mr. Harrel is the husband of Cecilia's childhood friend, Priscilla. But Cecilia is sad to see that Mrs. Harrel doesn't care about her, and has become silly, worldly, and profligate. On her arrival, Mrs. Harrel presents her to her "friends," and every day is filled with parties and London amusements which soon tire Cecilia. She sees Captain Aresby and Mr. Morrice again, and is introduced to many people, such as the insolent Sir Robert Floyer, who soon begins to pursue her for her money; Mrs. Harrel's gentle, serious, and shy brother Mr. Arnott, who falls in love with her; the sturdier of characters, Mr. Gosport; the frivolous and very chatty Miss Larolles; and the proud, silent Miss Leeson, but she cannot truly be attached to any of them. Mr. Monckton visits her, and she greets him with a real happiness which delights him.
Автор: Burney Frances Название: Camilla, or a Picture of Youth ISBN: 1545282129 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781545282120 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3792.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Burney Frances Название: Memoirs of Doctor Burney - Vol. III ISBN: 1523871997 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781523871995 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 5500.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Burney Frances Название: Camilla or a Picture of Youth ISBN: 1530666996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781530666997 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 5171.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Burney Fanny Название: Camilla: Or, a Picture of Youth ISBN: 1530580196 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781530580194 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4224.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Burney Frances Название: Cecilia ISBN: 1545358427 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781545358429 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3619.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Frances Burney Название: Journals and Letters ISBN: 0140436243 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140436242 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 2640.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and her years interned in France with her husband Alexandre d`Arblay during the Napoleonic Wars, she captures the changing times around her. She includes portraits such as the mad` King George, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick, and more.
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