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We aim to promote the work of the writer Frances Burney (1752-1840) her family and wider circle. We are a literary Society based in the UK but membership is open to anyone with an interest in the Burney family and their work. Members receive quarterly newsletters, back editions of which are available via the menu above. We have a close connection to the North American Burney Society and the Burney Centre at McGill University, Montreal. Our members also receive their Burney Letter and Burney Journal.
LATEST NEWS
NEXT EVENT – Francesca Saggini Talk ‘Below and Beyond. On Re-reading Burney’s Biographies’
Saturday 23 November 2019 1 pm at The Foundling Museum. Women’s Studies Group 1558 – 1837 Seminar Series For further information see:
https://womensstudiesgroup.org/seminars/
Previous Burney related events:
Dr Deborah Jones. 5 November 2019 Talk on ‘The Brilliant Burneys’ For an online interview related to this talk please see link below:
Sunday 13th October 2019 Jocelyn Harris: ‘Satire, Celebrity and Politics in Jane Austen’
This talk by Professor Jocelyn Harris was sponsered by the Burney Society Uk and included a consideration of Frances Burney and Jane Austen. Questions raised in her book of the same name include : Why did the young Jane Austen subscribe to Frances Burney’s ‘Camilla’ (1796)? And how many of the 1058 people on that list did she know?
……………………………………………………………………………………………Conference of the Burney Society (UK) Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln, 30 July-1 August 2019
Thanks to Cassie Ulph and her postgraduate students for an excellent conference.
The Minutes and the Revised Burney Society UK Constitution, which was ratified at the Annual AGM on Tuesday 31st July 2019, will be uploaded shortly.
We would like to thank all the speakers for their excellent papers, in particular our keynote speakers, Professor Lorna Clark (Carleton University, Canada) and Dr Gillian Dow (University of Southampton.