Talk:Sarah Burney

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Somebody please shake this into Wikipedia mark up style etc. Many thanks. Bmcln1 (talk) 18:11, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

To some extent it's now shaken. Can anyone help with some pictorial material? Bmcln1 (talk) 18:11, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

I'm bringing over any extra information in the newer, shorter Sarah Harriet Burney. Bmcln1 (talk) 09:12, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Transfer completed, but see Discussion there for referencing problems. Bmcln1 (talk) 09:52, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Having taken over the extra reliable information from the Sarah Harriet Burney page, I propose to turn it into a redirect page to this one in two weeks' time, if there are no objections by then. Bmcln1 (talk) 15:12, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

The text of the earlier duplicate article Sarah Harriet Burney:

Sarah Harriet Burney (29 August 1772 – 8 February 1844) was an English novelist. She published Clarentine in 1796, and other novels later. Burney was the youngest daughter of Charles Burney (1726-1814). She resided in Florence from 1816-39.

Biography

Baptised on 29 September 1772, in the parish of St. Nicholas at King's Lynn, Burney was the youngest daughter of Dr. Charles Burney (1726–1814) and his only child by his second wife, the widow of a wealthy King's Lynn merchant. Her half-sister was the author Frances Burney. From 1774 the family lived in Leicester Square in a house that once belonged to Isaac Newton. She excelled in languages, namely Italian and French, and upon the arrival in England of the French émigrés in 1792, she acted as interpreter between her uncle, the agriculturist Arthur Young, and the Duc de Liancourt during her stay at Bradfield Hall with her uncle. Burney next resided at Chelsea College with her parents, where her mother died in 1796.

In 1796 she published her first novel, Clarentine, anonymously. This was well-received, and was read by the king and queen. In 1808 she published Geraldine Fauconberg and Traits of Nature in 1812. In 1813 a second edition of Geraldine Fauconberg was called for. After her father's death in 1814, Burney published Tales of Fancy in December 1815 under her real name, dedicating the first tale to Lady Crewe, and the second, by royal permission, to the Princess Elizabeth.

In 1816, Burney left England for Florence, where she began to write her Romance of Private Life, which she published after her return home in 1839. The first tale in it is dedicated to Niccolini, the Italian singer, and the second to Lord Crewe. The novel The Wanderer is sometimes erroneously cited as one of Sarah Harriet Burney's books but was actually written by her sister, Madame d'Arblay.

Burney died in Cheltenham on 8 February 1844.

Further reading

• Doody, Margaret A. 1988. Frances Burney. Cambridge.
• Gibbs, L., ed. 1940. The Diary of Fanny Burney. London: Everyman.
• Hemlow, Joyce. 1958. Fanny Burney. Oxford.
• Hemlow, Joyce. 1973. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney. Oxford.
• Kilpatrick, Sarah. 1980. Fanny Burney. New York: Stein and Day.
• Morley, Edith J. 1938. Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and Their Writers. London.
• Morley, Edith J. (ed.) 1935. The Life and Times Henry Crabb Robinson. London.
• Stephen, Leslie and Sidney Lee, eds. 1922. The Dictionary of National Biography. Vol 3.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Burney, Sarah Harriet". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Category:English novelists Category:1772 births Category:1844 deaths