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Anniversaries
; Births: Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay), novelist and diarist, 1752; Thomas Young, linguist and physicist, translator of the demotic inscriptions of the Rosetta Stone...
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Love affair at a high pitch Meeting a celebrated castrato in a house off Leicester Square was the start of an impassioned but doomed liaison
; ...included Talleyrand, the risque Madame de Stael, her lover the Comte...and his close friend General d'Arblay. Staying nearby was the novelist...lived in Surrey, where they met Madame de Stael, and where Fanny fell in love and married General d'Arblay. In 1795 Phillips inherited...
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Love affair at a high pitch; Meeting a celebrated castrato in a house off Leicester Square was the start of an impassioned but doomed liaison.
; ...included Talleyrand, the risque Madame de Stael, her lover the Comte...and his close friend General d'Arblay. Staying nearby was the novelist...lived in Surrey, where they met Madame de Stael, and where Fanny fell in love and married General d'Arblay. In 1795 Phillips inherited...
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The Fame of Miss Burney.(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
; ...into the great world of London society. Her grandmother, Madame Duval from Paris (an English barmaid before ensnaring Evelina...up and is a marvel of bawdy vulgarity. I am partial to Madame Duval, but Dr. Johnson's favorite character in the novel was Mr. Smith, a Cockney suitor of Madame Duval's niece. ...
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Virgin sacrifice: elizabeth bennet after jane austen. (Confrence Papers).(Critical Essay)
; ...1844) even claims that in one respect Mrs. Gore is superior to Austen: If she rarely reaches the quiet humour of Madame D'Arblay, and never realizes the Dutch fidelity of Miss Austen, he argues, she preserves, upon the whole, a more sustained...
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Birthdays and Anniversaries
; ...Etienne Guettard, naturalist and geologist, 1786; Rodolphe Kreutzer, violinist and composer, 1831; Fanny Burney (Madame d'Arblay), novelist and diarist, 1840; Hartley Coleridge, author and poet, 1849; Louis Braille, deviser of a blind alphabet...
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Gazette: Anniversaries
; ...Odulphus, St Onuphrius and St Ternan. TOMORROW Births: Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, 1396; (Frances) Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay), novelist and diarist, 1752; Thomas Young, linguist and physicist, translator of the demotic inscriptions of the...
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A Week in Books ; ARTS & BOOKS REVIEW
; ...of the sensational Evelina (in 1778), friend of Johnson and the "Bluestockings", royal lady-in-waiting but then (as Madame D'Arblay) an observer of revolutionary France, a witness to Waterloo, aprolific novelist and playwright, a fearless and incisive...
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BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES
; ...1822; Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin, composer, 1872; Tom Mix (Thomas Edwin Mix), actor, 1880. Deaths: Fanny Burney (Madame d'Arblay), novelist and diarist, 1840; Louis Braille, deviser of a blind alphabet, 1852; Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president...
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