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Addison, Joseph 56
Agnew, Anne xxi
Agujari, Lucrezia (‘La Bastardina’) 78–80, 238
Akenside, Mark 218
Alchemist, The (Jonson) 31
Allen, Edmund 46, 47
Allen, Elizabeth, see Burney, Elizabeth Allen
Allen, Elizabeth (Bessy), see Meeke, Elizabeth Allen
Allen, Maria, see Rishton, Maria Allen
Allen, Mary (née Maxy) 47
Allen, Stephen 32
Allen, Stephen junior (FB’s stepbrother) xxi, 32, 47–8, 74, 374
Amelia (Fielding) 105–6
Analytical Review 268
Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson Ll.D (Piozzi) 223
Angerstein, Amelia (née Locke) 362
Angerstein, Caroline 367
Angoulême, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, duchesse d’363
Arne, Thomas 6–7, 14, 21, 37, 100, 356
Atala (Chateaubriand) 335
Augusta-Sophia, Princess 363
Austen, Cassandra xxiv, 160, 315n
Austen, George 165n
Austen, Jane xvii, 41n, 97, 167, 249, 263, 315, 385
FB’s literary influence on 91–2, 268–70, 321
relations with Cassandra 160
Babbage, Charles 366
Baker, Sir George 215, 216
Ball, Mrs 3, 5
Balzac, Honoré de 299n
Banks, Joseph 78, 312
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia 312, 384
Barber, Frank 179
Baretti, Giuseppe 89
Barlow, Thomas 72–3
Barrett, Charlotte (née Francis, FB’s niece) 319, 350, 366, 375, 378
birth 188
editor of Diary xvii, xviii, 383
as FB’s heir 381
on FB’s old age 369
on FB’s relations with stepmother 52–3
on FB’s widowhood 362
on FB’s writings 85
marriage 301
on Mary Ann Smith 377
religion 356
Barrett, Julia 368, 369–70
Barrett, Revd Richard Arthur Francis 381
Barrington, William Wildman, 2nd Viscount 80
Barry, James: The Triumph of the Thames 82
Barsanti, Jane (Jenny) 67
‘Bas Bleu, The’ (More) 180–1
Bath 151–3, 175, 348–9, 361
Battleridge (Cooke) 315n
Bazille family 275, 298, 300
Beaumetz, Chevalier de 255
Beggar’s Opera, The (Gay) 113
Belcotton, County Louth 270, 271, 281
Belinda (Edgeworth) 269
Bell’s Circulating Library 98, 99
Bensley, Robert 260
Berry, Mary 311
Berthier, Louis-Alexandre, Prince de Wagram 288
Bertie, Lady Charlotte 206
Bewley, William 82, 108
Blakeney, Edward 148–9
Bligh, William 157
Blue-stocking Club 129, 133–5. 140, 180–1
Bogle, John 182n
Bolton, Clara 376–7, 378
Bolton, George Buckley 376
Bonaparte, Napoleon xvii, 255, 275, 287–8, 294–5, 297, 300, 309, 319, 329, 331–2, 334, 336–8
Bookham 254, 270
Boscawen, Frances 180, 267
Boswell, James 108, 120, 121, 126, 128, 172, 227
Boulogne 190
Bourdois, Antoine 298
Bourdois, Hannah Maria, (née Burney, FB’s niece) 298
Boyd family 338–40
Brabazon, Jane 281
Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy… (FB) 256–7, 259, 263, 272, 289, 325, 329, 374
Brighton 142, 146–8, 153, 155–6, 173
Bristol 46, 96
Broglie, Princesse de 231
Brompton 99
Broome, Charlotte (formerly Francis, née Burney) see Burney, Charlotte Ann
Broome, Ralph 277–8, 301
Broome, Ralph junior 311, 356
Brussels xviii, 335–41, 344, 351
Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of 31
Bunsen, Baroness Frances (née Waddington) 372
Burgoyne, Lady Frances 178
Burke, Edmund xvii, 180, 230, 256
as fan of FB’s books 134, 170, 267
and Hastings trial 215
on Mrs Delany 190, 191
patron of Dr Burney 196
portrait in Diary 383
Burney, Ann (FB’s aunt) 13, 97
Burney, Ann (née Cooper, FB’s grandmother) 3–4, nn, 73
Burney, Catherine (Kitty, FB’s niece) 187, 249
Burney, Cecilia (FB’s niece) 375
Burney, Dr Charles (FB’s father) xviii, 76, 148
anecdotal powers 13
appearance 14, 39, 310
astronomical interests 62–3, 75, 206
attitude to d’Arblay 234, 244–7, 252, 258–9
childhood 3–4, 5
Continental tours 64, 65
death 320
doctorate 62
family background 1–3, 10–11
FB’s correspondence with 299, 300–1, 304
and FB’s Court appointment 195, 196, 198–201, 212, 222
FB’s relations with 2, 12, 18, 24–5, 42, 46, 51–2, 71, 73–4, 104, 110, 156, 163, 178, 196–7, 198, 222, 225, 227, 234, 252, 258–9, 310, 374
and FB’s writings 65, 90, 100, 104–6, 111–12, 118, 133, 139–41, 143, 150–1, 162–3, 170, 256, 268, 285–6
friendship with Mrs Thrale 109–10
as grandparent 284
homes 15, 17, 20, 65, 75–7, 212
ill health 14–15, 63, 77, 310–11, 317, 319
Johnson-mania of 108–9
marriages 9–12, 47, 50–1, 177
memorial stone 356
as musician 5–6, 12–15, 19, 22, 28, 34, 74, 108, 196, 324, 364
papers of 364–5, 371, 373, 381
as parent 4, 5, 12, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 31–3, 51, 88, 131, 160–1, 163, 175, 186–7, 188, 189, 195, 198–9, 222, 271–2, 273, 277, 279, 280, 284
personality 12, 22, 24, 27, 46, 196
portraits 81
relations with women 7–8, 32–3, 45–7, 49–50, 82
as widower 25–6, 27, 49–50, 273–4
will 320
writings 1, 19, 32, 34–5, 45, 48, 62–4, 74, 77, 85, 135, 169&n, 212, 227, 274
Burney, Revd Dr Charles (FB’s brother) xxviii, 282–3, 310, 311, 347, 356
art collection 348
birth 18
career 163, 186, 222, 271, 311, 331
childhood 25, 34, 76
death 357
disgrace at university 87–8, 89, 97, 110–11, 212, 357
and Dr Burney’s will 320
education 33, 51, 88
and FB’s writings 90, 96, 259, 260, 267–8, 285, 315
fatherhood 188
library 89, 357
marriage 186
as poet 88
political views 229
Burney, Charles Crisp (FB’s nephew) 77
Burney, Charles Parr (FB’s nephew) 88, 188, 282, 316, 351, 357, 371, 381
Burney, Charles Rousseau (FB’s cousin) 22, 66, 154, 285n, 364
Burney, Charlotte Ann (FB’s sister) 98, 99, 139
birth 25
childhood 34, 51, 76, 81
and Dr Burney’s will 320
death 380
FB’s correspondence with 43, 198, 200, 299, 320, 362, 368, 378, 380
FB’s relations with 161, 311, 362, 369, 375
and FB’s writings 90, 105
and Gordon riots 153, 154, 155
marriages 188, 277
motherhood 188, 356
relations with step-family 87, 162
and Susan’s marriage difficulties 271–2
widowhood 251, 301
Burney, Edward Francesco (FB’s cousin) 97–9, 101–2, 362
portraits by 69, 171, 255
Burney, Elizabeth (formerly Allen, nèe Allen, FB’s stepmother) 76, 241
d’Arblay’s relations with 246–7, 254
Dr Burney’s relations with 32–3, 45–6, 49–50, 52
death 273
FB’s relations with 48, 52–4, 73, 81, 101–2, 118, 130, 161, 177–8, 273–4
friendship with Esther (Sleepe) Burney 16
and Gordon riots 154, 155
marriage 47, 177
personality of 52, 80–1, 102
portrait in Memoirs xxi, 48–50
pregnancies 51, 251–2
relations with stepchildren 51, 62, 80–1, 87n, 161–2, 278, 279
sexual jealousy 81–2
wealth of 32, 47–8
Burney, Esther (Hetty, née Burney, FB’s sister) 72, 278, 311, 359, 362
on Alex 366
birth 12
death 375
and Dr Burney’s will 320
education 33, 34
FB’s correspondence with 194–5, 285, 298, 299, 305–6, 312, 355, 361, 362, 364
and Gordon riots 154, 155
marriage 65–6, 73, 74, 131–2
motherhood 66, 77, 161, 163, 188
musical talents xx, xxiv, 18, 22, 28, 66
personality 44
relations with parents 22–3, 25, 27
relations with stepmother 103
social life 59, 60, 65
Burney, Esther (née Sleepe, FB’s mother) xxviii; death 25–8, 30, 39, 49, 51. 214
family background 8–9
FB’s relations with 17, 25, 28, 74
friendships 16
ill health 25
illegitimate pregnancy 8, 10–11
literary interests 15–16, 22
marriage 11, 12
as mother 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 22, 24, 27–8
religion 10
as translator 63
Burney, Frances (Fanny, FB’s niece) 362, 375
BURNEY, FRANCES (Fanny, later Mme d’Arblay): appearance 14, 69–70, 311–12
birth 15, 16
as celebrity l, 131, 141, 148, 151, 370
childhood 18, 21, 22–3, 25, 28–30, 34, 40
conservatism 41, 58, 229–30, 232
at Court 197–212, 214, 215, 217–22, 225, 226–7
d’Arblay’s courtship of 234–6, 239–40, 242–7, 249–50
death 381
as dramatist 69, 135, 224–7, 259, 289, 329
early reading difficulties 23–4, 28, 33, 67
eating disorder 71–2, 127
egotism 373–4, 383
family background 1–4, 8–10
and feminism 41–2, 58, 94, 167, 256–7, 272, 325–6
financial situation 89, 170, 241–3, 251–2, 259, 261, 268, 276, 287, 288, 300, 301, 315, 316, 317, 320
foreign residence 295–301, 331–47
homes 253, 254, 275–6, 296, 299–300, 348, 361, 375, 380
ill health 70, 101, 146, 163, 222–3, 227, 258, 260, 312
imagination 22–3, 208
juvenilia 43–5, 53–4
literary style 55–8, 84–5, 122, 149, 209–10, 226–7, 270, 327–9, 372, 373, 374–5, 389–94
marriage 253, 254
married life 236, 254–5, 257–9, 288–9, 302, 330, 332, 355, 361
mastectomy 304–8, 309, 312
memoranda 304
mental fragility 208–9, 226
motherhood 258, 274
musical interests 22, 28
naivety 215, 238
as novelist 4, 17, 30, 42–3, 44, 56, 57, 61, 67, 72, 96, 160, 186, 192, 227
observational powers 181
in old age 369–70, 379–80
personality 28–30, 44–5, 123, 126, 368
as poet 66–7
portraits of 69–70, 171, 182n, 311–12
powers of memory xx-xxi, 24, 43, 149, 387–8
prudery 44, 192, 238, 290
reading tastes 40–3, 129, 256
relations with men 59–60, 67, 72, 131–2, 152, 179–80, 181–6, 200, 214, 217–18, 221–2
relations with Royal Family 340, 358, 362–3,
see also above, at Court.,
relations with siblings 22, 29, 132, 188
religion 10, 33, 179, 356
self-consciousness/shyness 30, 44, 67–8, 99, 128–9, 212, 235, 313, 375
short-sightedness 70
self-education 18, 22, 51–2, 56
sensitivity 18, 44, 52, 55
widowhood 361–2
will 381
as writer xix-xxv, 42, 53, 56, 58, 61–2, 85–6, 98–9, 116–17, 125, 130, 131, 139, 169, 209–10, 224, 244, 322, 362, 374–5, 384; see also under titles of individual works
Burney, Hannah Maria see Bourdois, Hannah Maria
Burney, James (FB’s brother) 76, 212, 253, 277, 362
Alex’s relations with 343
birth 14
childhood 18, 22
death 159, 365–6
and death of Cook 156–8
elopement with Sarah Harriet 159, 238, 278–80, 301
friendship with Phillips 159–60, 271, 281
marriage 170, 188
married life 249, 278–9, 311
naval career 20, 25, 33, 78, 80, 95, 160, 163, 186–7, 222, 365
personality 160
political views 186, 229
relations with father 320, 356
writings 311
Burney, James (FB’s grandfather) 2–6, 12
Burney, Martin Charles (FB’s nephew) 249, 381
Burney, Rebecca (FB’s aunt) 13, 97
Burney, Richard (FB’s uncle) 3, 7–8, 22
Burney, Richard Allen (FB’s nephew) xix, 77
Burney, Richard Gustavus (FB’s cousin) 99–100
Burney, Richard Thomas (Dick, FB’s half-brother) 52, 76, 213–14, 301
Burney, Sarah (Sally, nèe Payne, FB’s sister-in-law) 170, 188, 249, 279, 311n, 362
Burney, Sarah Harriet (Sally, FB’s half-sister) 228, 319, 376
birth 76
childhood 77, 85, 103, 161
and d’Arblay 244, 246, 247
on Diary 383–4
and Dr Burney’s will 320
education 213
elopement with James Burney 159, 238, 278–80, 301
FB’s relations with 186, 273
and FB’s will 381
letters xviii; as novelist 246, 280, 311, 384
relations with mother 212–13
Burney, Sarah (Rosette, nèe Rose, FB’s sister-in-law) 186
Burney, Susanna (FB’s aunt), 2, 3
Burney, Susanna Elizabeth (Susan, FB’s sister) 76, 79, 102, 195, 237, 260
birth 17
childhood 25, 33, 46
and d’Arblay 232, 251, 253
death 159, 283, 284–5, 381
FB’s correspondence with 55, 72, 112–13, 115–16, 118, 130, 132, 133, 146–7, 149, 153, 161, 162, 163, 169, 173, 176, 183, 189–90, 200, 201, 205, 208–9, 222, 226, 227, 243, 285
FB’s relations with 29, 45, 53, 54, 101, 156, 160, 161, 178, 190, 247, 283
and FB’s writings 90, 98, 105–6, 111, 139–40
and Gordon riots 154, 155
journal 213
marriage 159, 160–2, 163, 169–70;
married life 188, 251, 270–3, 281
musical interests xxiii, 28
papers of xviii; personality 22, 28
physical frailty 161, 190, 281–2
politics of 229–30, 326
on siblings 44
Busy Day, A (FB) 289, 290–4, 327
Byron, Augusta 147, 152
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Lord xvii, 315, 328
Cambridge, Charlotte 197, 306
Cambridge, George Owen 197, 199–200, 225
as Alex’s patron 362, 366, 368, 379
FB’s love for 180, 181–6, 200
Cambridge, Kitty 184
Cambridge, Richard Owen 181, 182, 183, 184–5
Cambridge University 87, 88, 316–17, 350
Camden Chapel 368, 375, 379
Camilla (FB) 28n, 185, 276, 326, 327, 329
autobiographical elements 89, 184, 213n
composition 249, 261–2, 289
dedication 210, 211, 249, 374
Gothic elements 265–6
influence on Austen 269
plot 262–7
published by subscription 267, 268
reception 268–9
revisions 268, 288, 384–5
sermonising tone of 261, 267, 272
Camilla Cottage 275–6, 295, 298, 300, 317
Campbell, Thomas 313
Canning, George 370
Careless Husband, The (Cibber) 67
Caroline, Princess of Wales 313
‘Caroline Evelyn’ (FB) 45, 54, 85, 115
Carter, Elizabeth 151
Carter, Molly 7
Catholic Relief Act 152, 153
Cecilia (FB) 92n, 244, 263, 327
autobiographical elements 61, 89, 208
composition 162–4, 168
earnings from 170, 241
introduction 168–9, 385
plot 143, 164–7
publication 169–70
realism of 166, 167, 168
reception 170, 192, 269
satire 166, 168
Ceiestini (violinist) 80
Chapone, Mrs 133, 176, 179
Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal 363
Charlotte Sophia, Queen 227, 274, 373
d’Arblay’s presentation to 357–8
FB in retinue of 197–8, 201–3
FB’s relations with 208–9, 222, 223, 239, 241
and FB’s writings 170, 249, 268
friendship with Mrs Delany 191–3
and King’s illness 216
portrait in Diary 199, 210–11
Chatham, 2nd Earl of 222
Chateaubriand, François-René de xvii, 335
Châtre, Marie-Charlotte, comtesse de la 231
Chavagnac, Adrienne de 295
Chelsea College 196, 212, 227–8, 273, 311
Che[s]sington 38–40, 67, 101, 113, 114, 162, 163, 170, 187–8, 205, 249
Chester 5–6, 12, 356
Cholmondeley, Mary (née Woffington) 101, 112, 114n, 116, 118, 129, 131
Chudleigh, Miss 60
Cibber, Coliey 67, 150
Cibber, Susannah (née Arne) 6, 38
Clarentine (Sarah Harriet Burney) 246, 280
Clark, Lorna J. 213n, 279
Cleland, John 22, 68
Clerke, Captain Charles 156, 157
Clifford, James 107
Clive, Kitty 6
Coke family 15
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 99
Colla, Giuseppe 78–9
Condover 4, 5
Constant, Benjamin 330
Cook, Captain James 1, 78, 156–8
Cooke, Cassandra (née Leigh), 270, 315n
Cooke, Mary 270
Cooke, Papilian Catherine (Kitty) 40, 101–2, 139, 171, 187, 249–50
Cooke, Revd Samuel 270
Cooper, Ann, see Burney, Ann Cooper
Corneley, Mrs 22, 60
Coussmaker, Catherine 104, 105
Covent Garden 21, 285, 291
Coventry, Earl of 37
Coventry, Lady Mary (nèe Gunning) 37
Crabbe, George 370
Crewe, Lady Frances (née Greville) 11, 267, 312
Crisp, Samuel 65, 148
death 171, 178
on Dr Burney 170
as dramatist 37–8, 143, 261
FB’s correspondence with xxii, xxiii-xxiv, 55, 73, 77–8, 80, 83–4, 114–15, 123, 136–9, 151, 164, 170
on FB’s personality 45, 72
FB’s relations with 36, 40, 67, 101, 137
and FB’s writings 103, 116, 117–18, 124, 133, 137–8, 139–42, 143, 150, 162–3, 170, 384
friendship with Dr Burney 19, 36–7, 47
musical interests 37
on Phillips 159
portrait 171
relations with Elizabeth Burney 81, 102, 161–2
retirement to Chesington 38–40
Critic, The (Sheridan) 142n
Critical Review 65, 101, 268
Croker, John Wilson xxi, 327, 374, 383
Crutchley, Jeremiah 172, 215
Cumberland, Richard 142, 143n, 148
Cunning-Man, The (Charles Burney) 34–6
Dahl, Michael 2
D’Arblay, Alexander Charles Louis Piochard (Alex, FB’s son) 309, 347, 361
birth 259
childhood 276, 295
Church career 362, 366, 368, 375, 379
death 320, 375, 379
education 89n, 302–4, 315, 316–17, 330–1, 349–50, 352, 359
engagement 377–8
on FB’s writing 329, 343–4
health 287, 299, 302, 303, 317
and Memoirs 371
mental problems 352–3, 378, 380
papers of 379
personality 274, 302, 304, 311, 331, 352–3, 368
as poet 366–7, 376
relations with FB 342–4, 349, 355, 366, 377, 378
relations with women 367–8, 376
D’Arblay, Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste Piochard (FB’s husband): appearance 235
arrival in England 231
as civil servant 300–1, 318
correspondence with FB 235, 242–3, 247
courtship of FB 233–6, 239–40, 242–7, 249–50
death 320, 360
diary 358
ennoblement 348
financial situation 241–3, 248, 250, 259, 276, 287, 300, 350
French kin 255, 275, 287–8, 298
ill health 344, 346, 357–60
love for FB 235, 259, 330, 355, 358, 360, 361
marriage 253
married life 236, 254–5, 257–9) 275–6, 332
military career 231–2, 247, 294–5) 329–37, 341) 346, 351
personality 232, 235, 236, 243, 247–8, 333, 361
portrait 350–1
relations with Lockes 318
returns to France 287–8, 294–5, 329, 350, 352
Dawson, Nancy 113, 115
Deal 310
Delany, Mary (née Granville) 201, 255
autobiography 191
death 215
FB’s friendship with 190–1, 198, 205
personality 191
portrait in Memoirs xxi; royal connections 170, 191–3, 195, 219
Delany, Dr Patrick 190, 191
Delap, Revd Dr John 71, 142–3
Devin du village, Le (Rousseau) 34
Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of 131, 238, 262
Devonshire, William Cavendish, 5th Duke of 238
Dewes, Bernard 192
Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay (ed. Barrett) 363–4
address to Nobody xx, 54–5
Court section 199, 210–11
editions xviii, xxvii; ‘Ilfracombe Adventure’ 353–5, 363
‘Journey to Trèves’ 344, 363
literary style 54–6, 148–9
Macaulay’s essay on xix, 327, 374
‘Narrative of the Illness & Death of General d’Arblay’ 359
publication 383
reception 383–4
reliability of xix-xxi, 53, 354–5
reviews 327
‘Waterloo Journal’ 338, 341, 363
Dickens, Charles 92, 168
Dictionary of Love (Cleland) 68
Dictionary of the English Language (Johnson) 19, 63, 108
Diderot, Denis 19, 64
Digby, Col. the Hon. Stephen 214, 217, 218, 220, 221–2, 225
Disraeli, Benjamin 376
Dobson, Austen xviii, xxvii, 53
Dodsley, James 90
Doody, Margaret Anne xxvii, 7n, 12, 182, 225–6, 265
Drury Lane Theatre 6, 14, 21, 31, 34–6, 37, 96, 99, 260
Dubois, Frances, see Sleepe, Frances Dubois
Dubois, Pierre 9, 10
Dumouriez, General Charles-François 247
Early Journals and Letters of Frances Burney (ed. Troide and Cooke) xviii, 112
East Indian, The (Anon.) 143
Eclectic Review 383
Edgeworth, Maria 268, 269, 313, 372, 373
Edinburgh Review 328, 343
Edwy and Elgiva (FB) 135, 224–6, 285
composition 217, 223–4
performance 259–61
revisions 289
Effingham, Elizabeth Howard, Countess of 216
Elberta (FB) 225, 261
Elizabeth, Princess 340, 363
Ellis, Annie Raine xviii, 113
Ellis, Rebecca, see MacBurney family
Elsham 7
Emma (Austen) 269, 270
Encyclopedic (Diderot) 16, 19
Epstein, Julia 195, 267n
Essay towards a history of the principal comets… (Charles Burney) 62–3
Evelina (FB) xviii, 1, 84–106, 111–18, 165, 193, 263, 292, 327
author’s anonymity 86, 90, 96, 97–101, 103–4, 123–5, 129–31, 147, 384
autobiographical elements 22, 46, 89, 96, 105
epistolary form 84
literary style 57, 84–5, 375
moral purpose 43
plot 91–2
preface 90–1
publication 85–6, 97, 370–1, 374, 384
reception 100–1, 104–6, 111, 112–19, 122, 123–4, !34> 146–7. 188
as satire 35, 68–9, 91, 92–6, 129
transcribed 90
Eversley, George John Le Fevre, 1st Baron 354
FarinelH (pseud. Carlo Broschi, singer) 64
Fay de Latour-Maubourg, Catherine de 298
‘Female Caution’ (FB) 66
Fielding, Henry 22, 42, 96, 105
Fielding, Sir John 60
Fielding, Mrs 204
Flint, Bet 126
Folcher, Betty 23
Foley, Sir Thomas and Lady Lucy 310
Fordyce, James 41, 42, 68, 257
Foster, Lady Elizabeth 238
Fox-Strangways, Lady Lucy 26, 214
France 255, 275, 287–8, 295–7
Revolution 220–1, 229–30, 233–4
wars with England 237, 300–1, 318–19
Francis, Charlotte (FB’s niece), see Barrett, Charlotte
Francis, Charlotte (FB’s sister), see Burney, Charlotte Ann
Francis, Clement (FB’s brother-in-law) 188, 215, 251, 277
Francis, Clement Robert (FB’s nephew) 310, 311, 316, 375
Francis, Marianne (FB’s niece) 301, 311, 312, 313, 314. 356, 368, 369. 375
Frasi, Giulia 13
Friendship in Death (Rowe) 28
Fuller, Richard 47
Fuller, Rose 148
Gabrielli, Caterina 80
Garrick, David xvii, 67, 108
and Burney children 31–2, 34, 36, 81
death 136
friendship with Dr Burney 6, 21, 34
Johnson on 121
portrait in FB’s writings 96
theatrical career 31, 37–8, 136
Garrick, Eva (née Viegel) 31, 180
Gast, Sophia (née Crisp) 38, 139, 171
Gay, John 196
General Biographical Dictionary 371
General History of Music (Charles Burney) 1, 63–4. 73, 77, 85, 111, 227, 251
General History of Voyages to the South Seas (James Burney) 311
Genlis, Stéphanie-Félicité, comtesse de 208–9, 296
Gentleman’s Magazine 101
George III, King 203, 221, 340
Dr Burney and 196
FB on 193–4, 199
friendship with Mrs Delany 192–3, 195
illness xviii, 215–20, 305, 357, 363
George III and the Mad-Business (Macalpine & Hunter) 216
George, Prince of Wales (later Prince Regent) 203, 210, 216–17, 218, 337, 363
Giardini, Felice de 74
Gibbon, Edward 170
Gillray, James 195
Gordon, Lord George 153, 155
Gordon riots 152–5
Grant, Mr and Mrs Charles 214n
Greatheed, Bertie 300, 333
Gregg, Elizabeth 13
Gregg’s Coffee House 13, 97, 155
Greville, Frances (née Macartney) 7, 11, 16, 96
Greville, Richard Fulke 6–7, 11–12, 37, 100
Griffiths, Ralph 268
Guiffardière, Revd Charles de 204
Gunning, Charlotte 221
Gwynn, Mary 229
Haggerdorn, Johanna 198
Hahn, Emily 53
Hales, Lady Mary 104, 105–6, 118, 131, 154
Halley, Edmond 63
Hamilton, Christopher 38–9
Hamilton, Sarah 39–40, 101, 139, 187, 249–50
Handel, George Friedric 13, 19
Harcourt, Lady Elizabeth 207
Harris, F. Leverton 354
Harris, Thomas 277, 285–6, 288, 291
Hastings, Warren xvii, xx, 188, 214–15, 222, 267, 278, 387–8
Hatton, Rebecca 38n
Hatton Garden 7–8
Hawkins, Sir John 65, 121–2
Haymarket Opera House 21, 96
Hazlitt, William 328, 343, 366n
Hemlow, Joyce xviii, xxvii, 8n, 86, 213n, 235n, 262, 289, 328
Hénin, Adélaide-Félicité, princesse d’ 231, 238, 288, 296, 298, 332, 334–5, 336–8, 347
Herschel, John 366
Herschel, William 206
Hesketh, Lady Harriet 239
Hill, Constance and Ellen 40n
History of England (Hume) 217, 225
History of Music (Hawkins) 65, 121
Hix, Jacques-Antoine 303
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson 313
Houghton 15, 19
Hubert de Vere (FB) 225, 259, 261
Hulin, General Pierre-Augustin 297
Hume, David 34, 217, 225, 267
Humphries, Hannah 99–100
Hunter, Robert 216
Hutton, James 238–9, 254
Hyde, William 154
Ilfracombe 352–4
Iliad (Homer) 41–2
Inferno (Dante) 45
Isham, Dr Edmund 315
Jacob, Edward 352
Jane Shore (melodrama) 29
Jenyns, Soame 182
Johnson, Richard Brinsley 56
Johnson, Dr Samuel xvii, 56, 151, 158
Boswell’s biography of 227
death 179; Dictionary 19, 63, 108
on Elizabeth Burney 87
on FB xxi, 69
FB’s relations with xviii, 126–9, 130, 134, 149, 173, 178–9
and FB’s writings 93, 112–15, 118–19, 120, 122, 129, 130, 132–3, 142, 164, 210, 371
friendship with Mrs Thrale 107–8, 110, 119–21, 128, 152, 163, 172–3, 177, 178–9
ill health 120, 173, 178–9; Letters 211
linguistic coinages 122
portrait in FB’s writings xxii-xxiii, 121–3, 128, 129, 383
relations with Dr Burney 13, 76, 108–9
relations with women 126–7
Joigny 255, 275, 287, 298–9, 300, 350
Jonson, Ben 31
Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (ed. Hemlow) xviii, 289, 375
Juniper Hall 231–7, 239, 240, 248, 251, 347
Juniper Hall (Hill) 40n
Keith, George Keith Elphinstone, Viscount 301
Keith, Viscountess, see Thrale, Hester Maria 349
Kemble, John Philip 259, 260
Kew Palace 217–19
King, Lt James 157, 159
King’s Lynn, see Lynn Regis
Kris, Kathryn 23
Lade, Sir John 131–2
‘Lady’s Dressing Room, The’ (Swift) 43
Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert, marquis de 231–2, 248, 288, 298, 330, 337, 347
Lalauze, Charles 60
Lalauze, Miss 65
Lally-Tolendal, Trophime-Gérard, comte de 231, 238, 288, 334, 336, 337, 370n
Lamb, Charles 311
Larrey, Dominique-Jean 305, 347, 357
La Tour du Pin, Henriette-Lucie, marquise de 338, 347
Latour-Maubourg, Victor 319, 347
Latrobe, Christian Ignatius 273
Lauriston, Jacques-Alexandre-Bernard 287, 300
Laval, Catherine-Jeanne, vicomtesse de 298, 330, 347
Lawrence, D.H. 96
Le Fevre, Sir John George 354–5
Lefroy, Anne (née Rickman) 159
‘Letter upon Comets’ (Maupertuis) 63
Letters of Simpkin the Second, The (Broome) 278
Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de 230–1, 234
Life of Johnson (Boswell) 227
Life of Waller (Johnson) 129, 130
Linley, Elizabeth 70
Lloyd, Christopher xviii
Locke, Cecilia 367
Locke, Frederica (Fredy) 195, 253, 254, 267, 306
death 375
FB’s correspondence with 205, 208–9, 226, 232, 239, 283, 284, 299, 300, 318, 319, 359
FB’s friendship with 188–9, 206, 362
mental instability 189
politics 229
Locke, John 189
Locke, William 188–9, 229, 231, 242, 252, 253, 254, 284, 295, 305
Locke, William junior 210, 317–18
London Review 100
Lonsdale, Roger xxii, 5, 26, 198, 373
Lort, Revd Dr Michael 124
Louis XVI, King 220, 230–1, 232, 233, 234
Louis XVIII, King 329, 334, 335, 337, 341, 348, 363
Louis-Philippe, duc d’Orléans, later King of the French 337
Love and Fashion (FB) 148n, 276–7, 285–8
Lowndes, Thomas 90, 96n, 97, 106, 123–4, 131, 147, 168
Lynn Regis (King’s Lynn), Norfolk 15–19, 32, 46, 51
Macalpine, Ida 216
Macaulay, Catherine 229
Macaulay, Thomas Babington 53, 374, 384
on Crisp 37, 38
on Dr Burney as parent 23, 24, 199
on Dr Johnson 164n
essay on Diary xix, 327, 374
on FB’s Court appointment 199
on style of Memoirs 373
MacBurney family 2–3, 5
Maisonneuve, Marie-Françoise-Élizabeth Bidault de 298, 334, 347, 367
Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl of 155
Mansfield Park (Austen) 270
Manwaring, G.E. 158
Martini, Padre G.B. 64
Mary, Princess 363
Mason, William 43, 229
Masque of Alfred (Arne) 6, 14
Maturin, Ann 365
Maurville, Henriette-Marguerite Bidé de 335, 338, 339, 340, 347
Meeke, Elizabeth Allen (née Allen, FB’s stepsister) 32, 87, 109
Meeke, Samuel 87
Memoirs of Doctor Charles Burney (FB) 56, 121, 246
composition 371–2
Crisp in 37
d’Arblay in 294
on Dr Burney’s writings 35, 36, 63, 74
Dr Johnson in 121–3
family home in 21
family portraits in 9–10
FB’s childhood in 30
FB as writer in 53, 85, 86, 97, 111, 113–14, 115
literary style of 327, 329, 372, 373, 374–5
Mrs Thrale in 121, 144–5
mulberry tree incident in 371
reception of 372
reliability of xix, xxi-xxiii, 26, 112, 274, 372–4
Mickleham 231, 237, 249, 251, 253, 270
Millico, Giuseppe 80, 96
Montagu, Elizabeth 119, 129, 133–4, 140, 151, 176, 180, 202, 267
Monthly Review 65, 100, 105, 268
Montmorency-Laval, Matthieu, duc de 231, 288, 330
More, Hannah 128, 134, 180, 256, 257, 261, 267, 277, 328
Morning Advertiser 260
Morning Chronicle 285
Morning Herald 169, 182, 216, 260
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 22, 78
Murphy, Arthur 67, 107, 108, 132–3, 139, 142, 348
Narbonne-Lara, Louis-Marie-Jacques-Amatric, comte de 236, 288, 296, 302
death 318, 330
at Juniper Hall 231, 233
relations with d’Arblay 241, 247, 248, 251, 253
relations with Mme de Staël 237, 240
Newton, Sir Isaac 63, 75
Noailles, Adrienne de 298
Nollekens, Joseph 166
Norbury Park 188–9, 223, 233, 253, 254, 272, 275, 283, 317–18
Norfolk 14–15, 18
Northanger Abbey (Austen) 262, 269, 321–2
Nuneham Courtney 207
Omai 78
Ord, Anna 182, 185, 200–1, 229–30, 237, 239, 241, 254
Orford, George Walpole, 3rd Earl of 15, 19
Orloff, Prince Alexis 80
Oswald, James 6
Pacchierotti, Gaspare 167
Palmer, Mary 129
Palmerston, Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount 131
Pantheon, Oxford Road 78, 96
Parham Park, Sussex 171
Paris 296, 299, 331, 346–7
Passy 299, 300
Payne, Sarah, see Burney, Sarah
Payne, Sarah (FB’s niece) 383
Payne, Thomas 170
Payne, Thomas junior 357
Pepys, William Weller 176, 181, 182, 328
Persuasion (Austen) 269
Pevsner, Nikolaus 189
Phenice Farm 253, 254
Phillips, Charles Norbury (FB’s nephew) 188, 271–2
Phillips, Frances, see Raper, Frances
Phillips, John William James (FB’s nephew) 258, 271, 282, 284, 375
Phillips, Molesworth 187, 209, 253, 284, 320
attitude to d’Arblay 251
friendship with James Burney 159–60, 365–6
marriages 159, 161, 162, 281–2, 365
naval career 157–8, 161, 162, 163, 271
personality 160, 270–1, 281
Phillips, Susanna Burney, see Burney, Susanna Elizabeth
Pilfold, Elizabeth 147
Piozzi, Gabriel Mario 173–7
Piozzi, Hester Thrale, see Thrale, Hester Lynch
Pitt, William, the Elder 37
Pitt, William, the Younger 218, 314
Planta, Margaret 204, 207, 220, 296
Poix, Anne-Marie-Louis, princesse de 347
Pope, Alexander 23, 24, 56, 138
Port, Mary Ann, see Waddington, Mary Ann
Porter, Elizabeth 127
Portland, Margaret, Dowager Duchess of 190, 191, 192
Present State of Music […], The (Charles Burney) 64–5, 74, 77, 108, 135, 212
Price, Major William 203
Pride and Prejudice (Austen) 41n, 91, 269, 315
Pringle, Veronica (née Rennie) 65
Proust, Marcel 98–9
Quarterly Review 327, 383
Quin, James 6
Radcliffe, Ann 265, 268
Raper, Frances (Fanny, née Phillips, FB’s niece) 188, 271, 282, 284, 301, 311, 320, 362, 381
Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke) 230
Regency Bill 219
Rehearsal, The (Buckingham) 31
Reynolds, Sir Joshua xvii, 75, 78, 108, 123, 129, 130, 132–3, 161, 180, 215, 348
Richardson, Samuel 22, 42, 84, 96, 97, 146–7, 165
Rishton, Maria Allen (née Allen, FB’s stepsister) 67, 213, 254, 280
childhood 32, 45
FB’s correspondence with 81, 272
marriage 74, 87, 278
relations with men 59, 66
relations with stepsisters 51
Rishton, Martin 66, 74, 87
Rivals, The (Sheridan) 67, 99
Robinson, Henry Crabb 383
Rogers, Pat 270
Rogers, Samuel 111, 313, 370, 371
Roman Catholicism 9–10, 152–5
Ross, Jane 213
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 34, 64, 234, 299n
Rowe, Elizabeth 28
Royal Suppliants, The (Delap) 142
Sacchini, Antonio xx, 80
St Dionis’s Backchurch, Fenchurch Street 12, 13
St George’s Chapel, Hyde Park Corner 12
St James’s Church, Westminster 47
Saintsbury, George 328
Sandby, Thomas 189
Sandford, Rebecca (née Burney, FB’s cousin) xix
Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th Earl of 79, 80
Santo Domingo 294–5, 329
Saville, Sir George 153
School for Scandal, The (Sheridan) 99
Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana 81, 198, 200, 203, 205, 209, 214, 218, 222, 268
Scott, Sir Walter xviii, 56, 111, 115, 328, 343, 370–1
Sermons to Young Women (Fordyce) 41
Seton, Alexander 59, 65, 72
Seven Years’ War 20
Seward, William xxiii, 108, 119, 122, 123, 132, 172, 178
Sharpin, Susanna 74
Sheeles, Mrs 24, 25, 65, 214, 285
Shelburne, William Petty, Earl, 1st Marquis of Lansdowne 172
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 313
Sherborne Castle 221
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley xvii, 67, 70, 99, 214, 312
and FB’s plays 132–3, 142, 150
Shinfield 88, 97
Shrewsbury 2, 3, 5
Siddons, Sarah 221, 259, 260
Siege of Pevensey, The (FB) 225
Simpson, James 48
Sleepe, Esther, see Burney, E.
Sleepe, Frances Dubois (FB’s grandmother) 8–10, 96, 190
Sleepe, James 10
Sleepe, Mary 10
Sleepe, Richard 8–10
Smart, Christopher 6, 13
Smelt, Lemuel 195, 196, 197
Smith, C.L.: ‘A Sunday Concert’ 82
Smith, Charlotte 256
Smith, Mary Ann 377–8, 380
Smollett, Tobias 6, 96
Soho 20
Solander, Daniel 78
Sophia, Princess 363
Spencer, Brent 363
Spencer, Frederick, 4th Earl of 229
Spencer, Georgiana Poyntz, Dowager Lady 70, 180
Spencer, Gervase 11
Staël, Anne-Louise-Germaine de xvii, 234, 248–9, 251, 288, 330, 354
FB’s relations with 240–1, 296, 313–14
personality 236, 240
sexual morals 237, 238–40
Stage, The 290
Stanley, John 196
Sterne, Laurence 42, 96
Streatfield, Sophia 82, 152
Streatham Park 107, 109, 119, 126–7, 161, 163, 173, 348
‘Streathamites’ 108, 118, 172
Strype, John 74n
Swift, Jonathan 43, 68, 117, 190
Sylph, The (Anon.) 131
Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice de xvii, 235, 237. 329–30, 347
Tamerlane (Rowe) 55
Templetown, Lady Elizabeth 231
Tessé, Adrienne-Catherine de Froulay de 298
Thackeray, William Makepeace 168
Thielcke, Anne 203
Thompson, William 7
Thomson, James 6
Thrale, Cecilia 175
Thrale, Harriet 175
Thrale, Henrietta Sophia 107, 112
Thrale, Henry 108, 152, 158, 348
business interests 109, 153, 163
death 163, 172
FB’s relations with 151
ill health 146
infidelities 82
married life 107, 145, 176
Thrale, Hester Lynch (later Mrs Piozzi) xvii, 70, 75, 105, 260, 301
and Blue-stockings 133–4, 140
on Burney family 1–2, 89
family life 107, 145, 152, 174, 175–6
on FB 1, 86, 129, 144, 207, 223
FB’s relations with 119, 123, 124–6, 127, 130–1, 143–6, 151–2, 156, 161, 173, 175–8, 223, 313, 348–9
and FB’s writings 112–14, 115, 116–17, 118–20, 133–4, 139. 141, 166, 267
friendship with Dr Burney 82, 109, 177
friendship with Dr Johnson 108, 120–1, 128, 172, 177
home of 44, 109
journal, see Thraliana; literary career 223
literary interests 107, 142
personal classification system 102, 109
portrait in Memoirs xxii-xxiii, 114, 121, 145
relations with Elizabeth Burney 102, 109–10
remarriage 173–8
wealth 109, 158, 172
widowhood 163, 172–3, 313, 348
Thrale, Hester Maria (Queeney, later Viscountess Keith) 113, 148
FB’s correspondence with 151, 176–7, 349
FB’s relations with 126, 144, 177–8
as heiress 174
marriage 301
as pupil of Dr Burney 108, 118
relations with mother 152, 174–5, 176, 178
Thrale, Sophia 176
Thraliana (Thrale) 109, 118, 139, 141, 144–6, 152, 174
Thurlow, Edward, 1st Baron 218, 387–8
Tomkin, Mr 60
Townshend family 15
Trèves 344, 345–6
Troide, Prof. Lars xviii
Twining, Revd Thomas 74, 88, 189, 273
Twiss, Richard 68, 71
‘Urania’ (Alexander d’Arblay) 376
Vernet, Carl and Horace 351
Vesey, Elizabeth 133, 135, 180, 181
Vickery, Amanda 191
Vioménil, Comte de 335
Virginia (Crisp) 37–8, 39, 224, 225, 261
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de 64
Waddell, J.N. 57–8
Waddington, Mary Ann (née Port) 261, 314, 344
Walker, Ralph S. 88
Walpole, Horace 124, 154, 180, 192, 202, 264
Wanderer, The (FB) 166, 185, 208, 291, 293
autobiographical elements 81, 89, 152
composition 304, 309, 315–16
dedication 43, 53, 304, 320–2, 374
literary style of 327–9
plot 322–4
publication 315, 317, 320; reception 327–8, 343, 370
on role of women 325–6
Warley satire 130, 131
Warren, Robert 218
Waterloo, battle of xviii, 337, 339, 340–1, 351–2
Way to Keep Him, The (Murphy) 67, 270
Webber, John 158
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of 336, 337, 339. 340
West Humble 275, 283, 284, 295
Westminster Review 101
Weymouth 220–1
Weymouth, Elizabeth Cavendish Bentinck, Viscountess 192
Whitbread, Samuel 172
White, Sarah 367
Whitworth, Charles, 1st Baron 300
Wilberforce, William 314
WUbury House, Wiltshire 7, 12
Wilkes, Mary 82
Williams, Anna 114, 178
Williamson, Lt John 157, 158
Willis, Dr Francis 218–19, 223
Windham, William 215, 227, 229, 230, 246
Windsor 192, 196, 198, 200, 203–4, 217
Witlings, The (FB) 104, 132–43, 277, 289, 323, 384
abandoned 140–1, 142–3, 150, 259
plot 135–6
reception 135, 139–42, 143
revisions 135, 141–2, 150, 164
as satire 69, 71, 133, 134–5
Sheridan and 150
Woffington, Peg 6
Wollstonecraft, Mary 181, 256–7, 268, 384
Womatt-Hater, The (FB) 69, 71, 289–90, 294
Woolf, Virginia 53, 384
Worcester 67
Wycherley, William 3
Young, Arthur 67, 230, 314
Young, Dorothy (Dolly) 16–17, 26–7, 32, 46, 47, 50, 131, 264n
Young, Edward 190
Ypres 87