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Burney family manuscripts collection
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CA RBD MS Burney
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1770-1904, bulk 1785-1839 (Creation)
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1 portrait : black and white, engraved
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Custodial history
Collection acquired by librarians at Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University.
Scope and content
The Burney family manuscript collection consists chiefly of material created by Fanny Burney (1752-1840), whose novel, Evelina (1778), was a bestseller during her life time and is still in print, as well as by Burney family members and friends. The manuscript collection contains correspondence, letter fragments, and a journal kept by Fanny Burney (1812), and other materials by Burney herself, other members of her family, and members of their circle. The collection also includes significant correspondence for her father, the musician and musical historian Charles Burney (1726-1814).
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The Burney Collection, also held at Rare Books and Special Collections, contains extensive monographic holdings relating to the life and career of eighteenth-century author Fanny Burney and her family. The library holds significant holdings of her first novel, Evelina, or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World (published 1778), published in over sixty known additions during her lifetime. The collection also contains significant numbers of editions of her other novels: Cecilia, or, Memoirs of an Heiress (1782), Camilla, or, A Picture of Youth (1796), and The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (1814). Other members of Burney's family are represented through publications; of special note is a unique copy of Arthur Dobson's The Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay (1904-1905), extra-illustrated by A. M. Broadley.
(Description revised from Richard Virr, Publications, p. 234)
Accruals
Further accruals are anticipated.