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Chapters: Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Oliver Goldsmith, James Boswell, Joshua Reynolds, Frances Burney, David Garrick, Giuseppe Marc'antonio Baretti, Henry Thrale, Charles Burney, Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith, Arthur Murphy, Robert Chambers, Hester Thrale, William Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, Edwin Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 152. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. Johnson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, and attended Pembroke College, Oxford for just over a year, before his lack of funds forced him to leave. After working as a teacher he moved to London, where he began to write miscellaneous pieces for The Gentleman's Magazine. His early works include the biography The Life of Richard Savage, the poems London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, and the play Irene. After nine years of work, Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755; it had a far-reaching effect on Modern English and has been described as "one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship". The Dictionary brought Johnson popularity and success. Until the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary, 150 years later, Johnson's was viewed as the pre-eminent British dictionary. His later works included essays, an inf...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=48594 ... Read more

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In Two Volumes. With A Selection From Her Correspondence, And From The Journals Of Her Sisters Susan Charlotte Burney. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 2; Original Publisher: F. Warne; Publication date: 1891; Subjects: Authors, English; Women authors, English; Biography ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ada Lovelace, Ann Radcliffe, Fredrika Bremer, Frances Burney, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Caroline Lamb, Felicia Hemans, Mary Martha Sherwood, Lady Florence Dixie, Sarah Josepha Hale, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Elizabeth F. Ellet, Lady Louisa Stuart, Frances Sargent Osgood, Fatma Aliye Topuz, Rosa Campbell Praed, Josephine Butler, Henriette Widerberg, Ellen Lenneck, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Frances Minto Elliot, Rhoda Broughton, Sarah Helen Whitman, Ada Cambridge, Eliza Allen, Elizabeth Inchbald, Karolina Pavlova, Helen Maria Williams, Mary Russell Mitford, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Charlotta Seuerling, Lilian Staveley, Mary Hays, Elizabeth Craven, Mariana Starke, Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, Catherine Booth, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Roxey Ann Caplin, Jane West, Catherine Gore, Jean Ingelow, Anne Bannerman, Elizabeth Thomas, Selina Davenport, Jane Porter, Camilla Collett, Mary Tighe, Elizabeth Bentley, Sophie Adlersparre, Julia Kavanagh, Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Alicia D'anvers, Anne Plumptre, Jeanette Granberg, Barbarina Brand, Eliza Lynn Linton, Charlotte Mary Brame, Rosalie Roos, Ellen Sturgis Hooper, Mary Letitia Martin, Harriet Lee, Elizabeth Hamilton, Harriet Winslow Sewall, Ellen Buckingham Mathews, Amalia Von Helvig, Frances Harriet Whipple Green Mcdougall, Elizabeth Polack, Marianne Ehrenström, Elsa Beata Bunge, May Crommelin, Sophia Lee, Belle Kendrick Abbott, Elizabeth Bath, Sofia Ahlbom, Helena Ekblom, John Strange Winter, Anna Maria Porter, Miriam Mosessohn, Märta Helena Reenstierna, Sophie Von Knorring, Louise Granberg, Catherine Crowe, Wanda Malecka, Charlotta Öberg, Łiesand Dunin, Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier, Reine Philiberte de Varicourt, Dragojla Jarnević. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Mary Martha Sherwood (née...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1241830 ... Read more

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Title: Laughing Feminism: Subversive Comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen. (book review)
Author: Ashley Montague
Publication: Yearbook of English Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Page: 243

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Chapters: Frances Burney. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Frances Burney (13 June 1752 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and, after her marriage, as Madame dArblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in Kings Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to musical historian Dr Charles Burney (17261814) and Mrs Esther Sleepe Burney (172562). The third of six children, she was self-educated and began writing what she called her scribblings at the age of ten. In 1793, aged forty-two, she married a French exile, General Alexandre D'Arblay. Their only son, Alexander, was born in 1794. After a lengthy writing career, and travels that took her to France for more than ten years, she settled in Bath, England, where she died on 6 January 1840. Frances Burney was a novelist, diarist and playwright. In total, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty volumes of journals and letters. In addition to the critical respect she receives for her own writing, she is recognised as a literary precursor to prominent authors who came after her, including Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray. She published her first novel, Evelina, anonymously in 1778. When the book's authorship was revealed, it brought her almost immediate fame due to its unique narrative and comic strengths. She followed with Cecilia in 1782, Camilla in 1796 and The Wanderer in 1814. All of Burneys novels explore the lives of English aristocrats, and satirise their social pretensions and personal foibles, with an eye to larger questions such as the politics of female identity. With one exception, Burney never succeeded in having her plays performed, largely due to objections from her father, who thought that publicity from such an effort would be damag...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=56578 ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more