Fanny Burney

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Fanny Burney

Frances "Fanny" Burney (born June 13, 1752 in King's Lynn , Norfolk , † January 6, 1840 in London ) was an English writer .

Life

Frances Burney, also called Fanny, was a daughter of the English music historian and composer Charles Burney . Her fame began after it became known that she had written the novel Evelina , initially published anonymously in 1778 . In the next few years she wrote Cecilia (1782) and Camilla (1796) - these novels deal with all the growth of smart, young girl, and Fanny Burney founded a new literary genre variant, the " novel of manners " (English "novel of manners". ). Her debut novel Evelina was published in March 2019 with extensive annotations in a complete new translation into German.

Her works were admired by Jane Austen . In 1814 Fanny Burney published her last novel, The Wanderer .

She also became known for her diaries, begun in 1768 and published posthumously, which describe life at the English court in great detail (Fanny Burney was Queen Charlotte's lady-in-waiting from 1786 to 1791) and report extensively on the personalities of her time, for example Samuel Johnson . Her diaries were edited in 1880 by the American author Sarah Chauncey Woolsey . Of particular interest to historians are the records from 1788, which were reissued by Oxford University Press in 2014.

expenditure

  • Annie Raine Ellis (Ed.): The early diary of Frances Burney, 1768–1778. With a selection from her correspondence, and from the journals of her sisters Susan and Charlotte Burney . Bell, London 1889 (digital copies as PDF: Vol. 1 (PDF; 35.6 MB), Vol. 2 ; PDF; 39.9 MB)
  • Lorna Clark (Ed.): The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney 1786-91, vols. III-IV: 1788. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-968814-2

Translations

  • Evelina or a young woman's entry into the world . Leipzig 1779. [1]
  • Evelina. Translated from English with comments by Rebecca Scharpenberg. 1st edition 2019. Books on Demand. ISBN 978-3-7431-6163-4

literature

Web links

Commons : Fanny Burney  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Keymer: Too Many Pears in: London Review of Books 37, No. 16, August 27, 2015, pp. 40-41 (review of the new edition of the diaries and letters of 1788 with a relatively detailed appraisal of Frances Burney's life and Plant.)
personal data
SURNAME Burney, Fanny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burney, Frances (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH King's Lynn
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1840
Place of death London