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Fanny Burney

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the 18th-century writer Fanny Burney, also known as Frances D'Arblay and Frances Burney, best known for her novel Evelina.

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'.

With

Nicole Pohl
Reader in English Literature at Oxford Brookes University

Judith Hawley
Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London

and

John Mullan
Professor of English at University College London.

Producer: Simon Tillotson.

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44 minutes

Last on

Thu 23 Apr 2015 21:30

LINKS AND FURTHER READING

READING LIST:

Frances Burney (eds. Peter Sabor and Lars Troide), Journals and Letters (Penguin, 2001)

Frances Burney (eds. E. and L. Bloom), Evelina (Oxford World鈥檚 Classics, 2002)

Frances Burney (eds. E. and L. Bloom), Camilla (Oxford World鈥檚 Classics, 2009)

Frances Burney (ed. Margaret Doody), The Wanderer (Oxford World鈥檚 Classics, 1999)

Frances Burney (eds. Peter Sabor and Geoffrey Sill), The Witlings & The Woman Hater (Broadview Editions, 2002)

Kate Chisholm, Fanny Burney: Her Life (Chatto & Windus, 1998)

Norma Clarke, Dr Johnson鈥檚 Women (Bloomsbury, 2001)

Hester Davenport, Faithful Handmaid: Fanny Burney at the Court of King George III (Sutton Publishing, 2000)

Margaret Anne Doody, Frances Burney: The Life in the Works (Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Claire Harman, Fanny Burney: A Biography (HarperCollins, 2000)

Joyce Hemlow, The History of Fanny Burney (Oxford University Press, 1958)

Hazel Mews, Frail Vessels: Woman鈥檚 Role in Women鈥檚 Novels from Fanny Burney to George Eliot (first published 1969; Bloomsbury Press, 2014)

Peter Sabor (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest Nicole Pohl
Interviewed Guest Judith Hawley
Interviewed Guest John Mullan
Producer Simon Tillotson

Broadcasts

  • Thu 23 Apr 2015 09:00
  • Thu 23 Apr 2015 21:30

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