The Diary and Collected Letters of Madame D'Arblay, Frances Burney. Frances Burney

THE DIARY AND LETTERS OF MADAME D'ARBLAY

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       (1778) Miss Burney Publishes Her First Novel and Finds Herself Famous

       (1779) The Author of “Evelina” in Society: She Visits Brighton and Tunbridge Wells

       (1780–1781) A Season at Bath: Mr. Thrale’s Death

       (1781–2) Miss Burney Extends The Circle Of Her Acquaintance

       (1782–3-4-) “Cecilia”: a paean of praise: Lamentations

       (1785–6.) Miss Burney is Favourably Noticed by the King and Queen

       (1786) Miss Burney Enters Upon Her Court Duties

       (1786.) Royal Visit To Nuneham, Oxford And Blenheim

       (1786–7-) Court Duties At Windsor And Kew

       (1787) Court Duties At St. James’s And Windsor

       (1787–8.) Court Duties: Some Variations In Their Routine

       (1788.) The Trial of Warren Hastings

       (1788.) Royal Visit to Cheltenham

       (1788–9.) The King’s Illness

       (1789-) The King’s Recovery: Royal Visit to Weymouth

       (1789–90.) Mr. Fairly’s’marriage: the Hastings Trial

       (1790–1) Miss Burney Resigns her Place at Court

       (1791–2.) Regained Liberty

       (1792–3) The French Political Emigrants: Miss Burney Marries M. D’Arblay

       (1793–6) Love in a Cottage: The D’Arblays Visit Windsor

       (1797–8) “Camilla” Cottage. Sundry Visits to the Royal Family

       (1798–1802.) Visits to old Friends: Westhamble: Death of Mrs. Phillips: Sojourn In France

       (1812–14.) Madame D’Arblay and her Son in England

       (1815) Madame D’Arblay again in France: Bonaparte’s Escape from Elba

       (1815) At Brussels: Waterloo: Rejoins M. D’Arblay

       (1815–8) At Bath and Ilfracombe: general D’Arblay’s Illness and Death

       (1818–40) Years of Widowhood. Death of Madame D’Arblay’s Son. Her Own Death

(1778)

      MISS BURNEY PUBLISHES HER FIRST NOVEL AND FINDS HERSELF FAMOUS

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      (Miss Burney’s first novel, “Evelina,” had been submitted in manuscript to the great publisher, Dodsley, who refused to look at an anonymous work. It was then offered to Lowndes, who published it. The negotiations with the publisher were carried on by Fanny’s brother Charles, and her cousin, Edward Burney. These two, with her sisters, and her aunts Anne and Rebecca (Dr. Burney’s sisters), appear to have been the only persons entrusted with the secret. It will be most convenient here, at the commencement of—“The Diary,” to give a few necessary details respecting the Burney family. By his first wife, Esther Sleepe, Dr. Burney became the father of seven children:—

      1. Esther (“Hetty”), born 1749; married, in 1770, her cousin Charles Rousseau Burney, eldest son of Dr. Burney’s elder brother, Richard Burney, of Worcester. Hetty’s husband is always called “Mr. Burney” in the “Diary”. He was a musician.