Category: Biographies
In the second half of the seventeenth century, there lived at the village of Great Hanwood, four miles from Shrewsbury, a country gentleman of a good estate, named James Macburney. In later life, he was land-steward to the Earl of Ashburnham; and he rented or possessed a house...
Whatever view may be taken of the effect of Miss Burney’s life at Court upon her literary prospects, it was allowed by King George that she had sacrificed something. “It is but...
6. CHAPTER VIOn the 6th of July, 1786, the _Public Advertiser_ announced that—“Miss Burney, daughter of Dr. Burney, is appointed Dresser to the Queen, in the room of Mrs. Hoggadore, gone to...
2. CHAPTER IINo. 1, St. Martin’s Street, now No. 35, to which the Burneys moved early in 1774, may fairly be described as a house with a history. We say “now,” since it still exists,—standin...
4. CHAPTER IVOnce—so runs the story—when Miss Burney was dining with Sir Joshua Reynolds at that pleasant villa upon Richmond Hill which had been built for him by Chambers the architect, she...
1. CHAPTER IIn the second half of the seventeenth century, there lived at the village of Great Hanwood, four miles from Shrewsbury, a country gentleman of a good estate, named James Macburn...
5. CHAPTER VEither from Mr. Crisp’s injunctions as to secrecy, or from suppressions in the _Diary_ as we now have it, Miss Burney’s record contains but few references to the progress of _Ce...
3. CHAPTER IIIAt the beginning of 1778, English Literature, and especially that branch of it which consists of fiction, seems to have been suffering from a kind of sleeping sickness. The grea...