Memorializing Sorrow in Frances Burney's "Consolatory Extracts"

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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LIFE Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI:10.1215/00982601-7725716

H. Havens

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Abstract

Abstract:After her beloved sister Susan died on 6 January 1800, Frances Burney wrote several grieving letters, but her ordinarily voluminous journals and letters were markedly scant during the year 1800. Burney expressed her grief later and elsewhere, particularly in her little-known commonplace book, "Consolatory Extracts occasioned by the tragic death of her sister Susan Phillips in January 1800," which reveals her protracted process of mourning through her appropriation of extracts from A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770 (1809) and its composition following her mastectomy in 1811. Many of the themes in "Consolatory Extracts" suggest that Burney's memorializing of Susan is similarly borne out in her fictional works, particularly her unfinished tragedy Elberta (1785–1814) and her novel The Wanderer (1814).

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弗朗西丝·伯尼的“慰问性摘录”悼念悲伤

摘要:1800年1月6日，弗朗西斯·伯尼(Frances Burney)挚爱的姐姐苏珊(Susan)去世后，她写了几封悲伤的信，但她平时大量的日记和信件在1800年明显少之又少。伯尼后来在其他地方表达了她的悲伤，尤其是在她鲜为人知的普通书籍中，“1800年1月她的妹妹苏珊·菲利普斯的悲惨死亡引起的安慰摘录”，通过她从伊丽莎白·卡特夫人和凯瑟琳·塔尔博特小姐之间的一系列信件中摘录，从1741年到1770年(1809年)，以及1811年乳房切除术后的写作，揭示了她漫长的哀悼过程。《安慰摘录》中的许多主题表明，伯尼对苏珊的纪念在她的小说作品中也得到了类似的体现，尤其是她未完成的悲剧《埃尔伯塔》(1785-1814)和小说《流浪者》(1814)。

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期刊介绍： Committed to interdisciplinary exchange, Eighteenth-Century Life addresses all aspects of European and world culture during the long eighteenth century, 1660–1815. The most wide-ranging journal of eighteenth-century studies, it also encourages diverse methodologies—from close reading to cultural studies—and it always welcomes suggestions for review essays, special issues, and innovative approaches. Among Eighteenth-Century Life’s noteworthy regular features are its film forums, its review essays, its book-length special issues, and the longest and most eclectic lists of books received of any journal in the field.