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The History of Fanny Burney

by Joyce Hemlow

Pages: 528

Contributors: Joyce Hemlow

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Place of Publication: Oxford

Publication Year: 1958

Subjects: Burney, Fanny,--1752-1840

Table of Contents

Title Page

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CONTENTS

List of Plates

ABBREVIATIONS

I: 'THE OLD LADY' (1752-1767)

II: A DECADE OF COMPLICATIONS (1768-1778)

III: NOVELIST (1776-1778)

IV: EVELINA

V: THE WITS AND 'THE WITLINGS' (1778-1780)

VI: CECILIA (1780-1782)

VII: 'HOME & BOSOM STROKES' (1783-1786)

VIII: WINDSOR AND KEW (1786-1791)

IX: A SURREY IDYLL (1792-1795)

X: CAMILLA: OR, A PICTURE OF YOUTH (1796)

XI: 'CRUELLY BLASTED' (1797-1800)

XII: 'A BUSY DAY' (1801-1802)

XIII: THE WANDERER (1802-1814)

XIV: 'TERRIBLY MANGLED' (1814-1815)

XV: REQUIEM (1815-1818)

XVI: 'IN AFFLICTION'S NIGHT' (1818-1828)

XVII: MEMOIRS (1828-1832)

XVIII: THE WORLD OF LIGHT (1832-1840)

NOTES

APPENDIX: THE BURNEY MANUSCRIPTS: A TENTATIVE SUMMARY

INDEX

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Spring Books

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