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The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney: Volume II, 1774-1777

The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney: Volume II, 1774-1777

Troide, Lars

Hardcover

Series: Early Journals & Letters of Fanny Burney, 1774-1777

Political Biographies

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ISBN10: 0773505393
ISBN13: 9780773505391
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Feb 1 1991
Pages: 550
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

The second volume of this critical edition of the early journals and letters of Fanny Burney brings us to the eve of her sudden fame as the author of Evelina. With the publication of each volume of this edition, the full texts of Burney's early journals and letters are, for the first time, made available in their original state.

The years 1774-77 saw Fanny Burney's increasing occupation with Evelina, which she finally completed and presented to the publisher Thomas Lowndes. Like her novel, the journals and letters of this period reveal her artistic powers, as she continues to sketch characters with economy and precision and create convincing narratives out of the events of her life.

Among the more memorable figures she meets at her father's London house are the noble savage Omai, the first Tahitian brought back to England; the famed explorer James Abyssinian Bruce, who returned from Africa with tales of natives who ate raw flesh; and Prince Aleksei Orlov of Russia, who had Czar Peter III murdered in order to permit Peter's wife, Catherine the Great, to ascend the throne. Other notable figures include Dr Samuel Johnson and the great singer Lucrezia Agujari, admired by Mozart. Also in these pages, the usually diffident Miss Burney takes charge of her destiny by rebuffing her suitor Thomas Barlow, who has wealth, education, good looks, and the vehement approval of most of her family, but whom she finds a total bore.

The journals and letters of Fanny Burney are an invaluable source for anyone interested in the social and literary history of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England. Lars Troide has supported the texts with thorough and detailed annotations.

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