By Janice Farrar Thaddeus (auth.)
Emphasizing Frances Burney's professionalism and her braveness, Janice Farrar Thaddeus indicates the protean author who known her skills and exercised them, continuously rigorously shaping her occupation. even though now often depicted as retiring, even frightened, Burney pressured on her analyzing public issues they have been scarcely prepared for, flamboyantly blending genres, writing comically approximately intimate violence. now not content material in outdated age to be basically a literary icon, she privately recorded with expanding readability the moments whilst the realm lacerates the self.
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Far more dear To me than light, than nourishment, or rest, Hygieia’s blessings, Rapture’s burning tear, Or the life blood that mantles in my breast! If in my heart the love of Virtue glows, ‘Twas planted there by an unerring rule; From thy example the pure flame arose, Thy life, my precept – thy good works, my school. Could my weak pow’rs thy num’rous virtues trace, By filial love each fear should be repress’d; The blush of Incapacity I’d chace, And stand, recorder of thy worth, confess’d: But since my niggard stars that gift refuse, Concealment is the only boon I claim; Obscure be still the unsuccessful Muse, Who cannot raise, but would not sink, your fame.
An analysis of their markedly similar adventures refines our understanding of the nuances of Burney’s experience. Like Burney, Hawkins published anonymously and was rejected on this ground by her firstchoice publisher. She needed to change from Cadell to Hookham and Carpenter. 18 Within this matrix of similarity, the differences are instructive. Hawkins feared that her handwriting would be recognized, but she never thought of adopting a disguised hand. She lacked Burney’s desire to create her life as if it were a dramatic script.
