Burney
Burney names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Burney FRANCES (MADAME D'ARBLAY)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANCES (MADAME D'ARBLAY), an English novelist, daughter of Charles Burney, born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, June 13, 1752. After she had published "Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World" (1778), she became the favorite of the literary men of the day, especially Dr. ovel, "Cecilia" Johnson. Her second novel, (1782), was no less admired. In 1786 she was made Second Keeper of Robes to Queen Charlotte, and in 1793 she was married to M. D'Arblay, a French army officer. Her other books are "Camilla" (1795), and "The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties" (1814). Her "Diary and Letters," edited by her niece (7 vols., 1842-1846), are affected, but entertaining. She also wrote memoirs of her father (1832). She died in Bath, Jan. 6, 1840.
Burney SIR CECIL, British naval commander
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR CECIL, British naval commander; born May 15, 1858. He was educated at the Royal Naval Academy, Gosport. He served during the Egyptian War, and was active in the eastern Soudan campaign of 1884. From 1909 to 1910, he was Admiral of the Plymouth sub-division of the Home Fleet. In 1911-1912, he commanded successively the Atlantic Fleet and the Third Squadron as Vice-Admiral. He was second in command of the Grand Fleet 1914-1916, and took a distinguished part in the battle of Jutland, May 31, 1916. He was created a K. C. B. in 1913.
Burney CHARLES, an English author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES, an English author, born in Shrewsbury, April 7, 1726. He became a famous and influential musician in London; was given the degree of Doctor of Music by Oxford in 1769; and sacrificed time, money, and personal comfort to travel and collect material for his "History of Music" (4 vols., 1776-1789). He also wrote "Memoirs and Letters of Metastasio" (3 vols., 1796). Madame D'Arblay was his daughter. He died in Chelsea, April 12, 1814.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's called Frances Burney's diaries "affected, but entertaining" and treated her as a footnote to Dr. Johnson's circle; that judgement has been overturned. Joyce Hemlow's scholarly editions from the 1970s and 1980s restored the passages her niece's 1842-46 edition had tidied away — including Burney's unflinching 1811 account of undergoing a mastectomy without anaesthetic — and she is now read as a major novelist in her own right, the source of Jane Austen's title Pride and Prejudice (from Cecilia) and an acknowledged influence on her. Her comedies, suppressed in her lifetime, reached the professional stage only in the 1990s. Of the other two: her father Charles remains valued as much for his Italian and German musical travel journals as for the History of Music, while Sir Cecil Burney, alive when this was written, died in 1929, his "distinguished part" at Jutland long since picked over by historians debating the Grand Fleet's failure to press its advantage.
Written for this edition, 2026.