Fanny Burney
23 Apr, 2015
820 English and Old English literatures
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the 18th-century novelist, playwright and diarist Fanny Burney, also known as Madame D’Arblay and Frances Burney. Her first novel, Evelina, was published anonymously and caused a sensation, attracting the admiration of many eminent contemporaries. In an era when very few women published their work she achieved extraordinary success, and her admirers included Dr Johnson and Edmund Burke; later Virginia Woolf called her ‘the mother of English fiction’.
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Guests
- Nicole Pohl
2 episodes
Reader in English Literature at Oxford Brookes University - Judith Hawley
15 episodes
Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London - John Mullan
14 episodes
Professor of English at University College London
Reading list
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Journals and Letters
Frances Burney (eds. Peter Sabor and Lars Troide) (Penguin, 2001) Google Books → -
Evelina
Frances Burney (eds. E. and L. Bloom) (Oxford World's Classics, 2002) Google Books → -
Camilla
Frances Burney (eds. E. and L. Bloom) (Oxford World's Classics, 2009) Google Books → -
The Wanderer
Frances Burney (ed. Margaret Doody) (Oxford World's Classics, 1999) Google Books → -
The Witlings & The Woman Hater
Frances Burney (eds. Peter Sabor and Geoffrey Sill) (Broadview Editions, 2002) Google Books → -
Fanny Burney: Her Life
Kate Chisholm (Chatto & Windus, 1998) Google Books → -
Dr Johnson's Women
Norma Clarke (Bloomsbury, 2001) Google Books → -
Faithful Handmaid: Fanny Burney at the Court of King George III
Hester Davenport (Sutton Publishing, 2000) Google Books → -
Frances Burney: The Life in the Works
Margaret Anne Doody (Cambridge University Press, 1989) Google Books → -
Fanny Burney: A Biography
Claire Harman (HarperCollins, 2000) Google Books → -
The History of Fanny Burney
Joyce Hemlow (Oxford University Press, 1958) Google Books → -
Frail Vessels: Woman's Role in Women's Novels from Fanny Burney to George Eliot
Hazel Mews (Bloomsbury Press, 2014) Google Books → -
The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney
Peter Sabor (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2007) Google Books →
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Hello (First sentence from this episode)
Hello, Virginia Woolf called Fanny Burney the mother of English fiction.