Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) was one of the most popular and influential creative forces in
late Georgian Britain, producing a diversity of works that defy simple categorisation. He was …

Abstract Although Frances Burney's readers have long recognized her theatricality, the
extent to which her novels are infused by the theater has not yet been fully appreciated. I …

How did booksellers make money selling fiction in the long eighteenth century? Unlike other
genres, fiction had no established market. Through a quantitative analysis of fiction imprints …

In Frances Burney's second novel, Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782), the social
taxonomist Mr. Gosport educates the protagonist in the ways of the bon ton by applying …

This dissertation investigates the trope of the na ve protagonist in the British novel from
1770–1830 and its many narrative uses, ranging from feminist satire in Frances Burney's …

Although it has been well documented that novelist and aspiring playwright Frances Burney
was encouraged by playwright Arthur Murphy as she wrote her first play The Witlings (1779) …