{"product_id":"a-known-scribbler-frances-burney-on-literary-life-9781551113203","title":"A Known Scribbler: Frances Burney on Literary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrances Burney’s journals and letters, composed between 1768 and 1839, contain a unique account of the creative, social, and commercial ambitions and achievements of an eighteenth-century female writer. Focusing on Burney’s literary life, this selection from her journals and correspondence combines Burney’s own accounts of the creation of her popular novels, her aspirations for her dramatic writings, and her reflections upon her letters and journals as literary productions in their own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to Burney’s letters and journal entries, this Broadview edition includes: selections from Burney’s \u003cem\u003eBrief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy\u003c\/em\u003e (1793) and \u003cem\u003eMemoirs of Doctor Burney\u003c\/em\u003e (1832); letters by family and friends about her literary activities; and contemporary reviews of \u003cem\u003eThe Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This rich selection gives a vivid sense of Burney, the sharp-eyed and exacting writer. It also brings to life her struggles, and her self-awareness, as an author, striving and competing in a literary marketplace. The book charts one extraordinary woman’s life of writing, but its journal entries, letters and reviews also reveal the changing habits of a whole literary culture.” — John Mullan, University College London\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“These accounts of Frances Burney’s literary adventures, along with the advice of her closest friends and relatives, provide a penetrating view of a woman writer’s constraints and obstacles in the eighteenth century. Justine Crump’s selections, from Burney’s excitement over the anonymous publication of \u003cem\u003eEvelina\u003c\/em\u003e to Samuel Crisp’s warnings about propriety and Edmund Burke’s praise of \u003cem\u003eCecilia\u003c\/em\u003e, provide intriguing perspectives of Burney and her art.” — Linda Lang-Peralta, The Metropolitan State College of Denver\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations and Short Titles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBurney and the Literary Marketplace\u003cbr\u003eBurney and Eighteenth-Century Theatre\u003cbr\u003eCreativity and the Female Artistin Eighteenth-Century Britain\u003cbr\u003eBurney’s Life-Writings\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrances Burney: A Brief Chronology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Note on the Text\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrincipal Persons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJournals and Correspondence of Frances Burney\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Contemporary Reviews of \u003cem\u003eThe Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eNew Monthly Magazine and Humorist\u003c\/em\u003e (February 1842)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e[John Wilson Croker] \u003cem\u003eThe Quarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e (June 1842)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e[Thomas Babington Macaulay] \u003cem\u003eThe Edinburgh Review\u003c\/em\u003e (January 1843)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eEclectic Review\u003c\/em\u003e (1847)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50075531215191,"sku":"9781551113203","price":27.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781551113203.jpg?v=1740634807","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-known-scribbler-frances-burney-on-literary-life-9781551113203","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}