ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS
FANNY BURNEY
(MADAME D’ARBLAY)
BY
AUSTIN DOBSON
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FOUR
First Edition, 1903
Reprinted, 1904
Copyright in the United States of America, 1903
PREFACE
The main sources for this memoir of Frances orFanny Burney,—afterwards Madame D’Arblay,—inaddition to her novels, the literature of the period, andthe works specified in the footnotes, are as follows:—
1. Memoirs of Dr. Burney, arranged from his own Manuscript,from Family Papers, and from PersonalRecollections. By his Daughter, Madame D’Arblay.In Three Volumes. London: Moxon, 1832.
2. Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay, Author of“Evelina,” “Cecilia,” etc. Edited by her Niece.[In Seven Volumes.] London: Colburn, 1842-46.[The edition here used is Swan Sonnenschein’s fourvolume issue of 1892.]
3. The Early Diary of Frances Burney 1768-1778. Witha Selection from her Correspondence, and from theJournals of her Sisters Susan and Charlotte Burney.Edited by Annie Raine Ellis. In Two Volumes.London: George Bell and Sons, 1889.
I am indebted to the kindness of ArchdeaconBurney, Vicar of St. Mark’s, Surbiton, for accessto his unique extra-illustrated copy of the Diaryand Letters of 1842-6, which contains, among otherinteresting mss., the originals of Mrs. Thrale’s lettermentioned at page 86 of this volume, and of Burke’sletter mentioned at page 124. Archdeacon Burney isthe possessor of Edward Burney’s portrait of hiscousin (page 88); of the Reynolds portraits of Dr.Burney and Garrick from the Thrale Gallery (page 94);of a very fine portrait of Dr. Charles Burney byLawrence; and of a group by Hudson of HettyBurney, her husband, Charles Rousseau Burney, andher husband’s father, Richard Burney of Worcester.
I am also indebted to Mrs. Chappel of East Orchard,Shaftesbury, granddaughter of Mrs. Barrett, the editorof the Diary and Letters, for valuable information asto Burney relics in her possession.
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