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    Fanny Burney Memorial: Who Was She?

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    Jacques d'Azur
    Fanny Burney Bath

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    FannyBurneyMemorial
    Whowasshe?
    Wikipedia:FrancesBurney(13June17526January1840),alsoknownasFannyBurneyand,afterher
    marriage,asMadamedArblay,wasanEnglishnovelist,diaristandplaywright.FrancesBurneysfirst
    novel,EvelinaortheHistoryofaYoungLadysEntranceintotheWorld,waspublishedanonymouslyin1778,
    withoutherfathersknowledgeorpermission.Thenovelwasacriticalsuccess,receivingpraisefrom
    respectedindividuals,includingthestatesmanEdmundBurkeandliterarycriticDrJohnson.

    WhywassheinBath?
    ShemarriedGeneralAlexandred'Arblayin1792andlivedwithhiminFranceformorethantenyears.They
    returnedtoBathandlivedthereuntiltheirdeath.ShewasburiedatStSwithin'schurchWalcot,wherethere
    isaseparatememorialnexttothattoGeorgeAusten:

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    Thetextreads
    "Thetabletoptombinthisenclosurecommemoratesthenovelist,playwrightanddiaristFrances(Fanny)
    Burney(17521840)andherson,Alexanderd'Arblay(17941837).
    FrancesBurney,whowrotethenovelsEvelina(1778),Cecilia(1783),Camilla(1796)andTheWanderer
    (1814)andwhoseworkinfluencedJaneAusten,visitedBathin1767,1780and1791.Aplaquemaybeseen
    on14SouthParadewhereshestayedin1780withHesterandHenryThrale.
    From1815to1818shelivedat23GreatStanhopeStreetwithherhusbandGeneralAlexanderd'Arblay
    (17521818),whoisrememberedbyawallmemorialinsidethechurch.Hiswifeandsonwereburiedcloseto
    hisgraveinthemortuarychapelgardenontheothersideofWalcotStreet.Theiroriginalgravestoneshaving
    fallenintodisrepair,thechestmonumentwaserectedbytheBurneyfamilyin1906,andmovedtoitspresent
    positionbythechurchauthoritiesin1955.
    Thisplaquewaserectedin2005bytheBurneySocietyofGreatBritain,CanadaandtheUnitedStatesandthe
    descendantsoftheBurneyfamily."

    Closeupofthetomb:

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    TheremainsofFannyBurney,herhusbandandherson,weretransferredtoHaycombeCemeteryinBath
    fromtheWalcotburialgroundwhenitwasclearedforpossibleredevelopment.Theyareburiedbeneaththe
    RockeryGardenonthewesternsideofthecemeteryastonemarksthearea
    (http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/birthsmarriagesanddeaths/burialsand
    cremations/cemeteries/haycombecemetery)
    LocationmapofWalcotchurch:

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