Tuesday 25 October, 7.30pm to 8.30pm, in person at Leatherhead Library, 68 Church Street, Leatherhead, KT22 8DP   This talk is part of my ongoing collaboration with Surrey Heritage and Surrey Libraries to engage local communities with the life and works of Frances Burney in the 1790s. Burney spent a good few years of that […]

SKINNY PRESENTATION Bars Digital Events – Copy Introducing OpeRaNew ppt presentation by Francesca Saggini is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0. Based on a work at https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/fsaggini/?p=168.

  Today I spent a great few hours learning how to write and edit a Wikipedia entry. @Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Burney. My entry of choice was, predictably, Frances Burney. Wikipedia is the first port of call for anybody interested in a quick look at a topic or person. Therefore, I think that working on an author’s […]

Death in Burneyland by Fran Saggini is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0. Based on a work at https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/fsaggini/?p=127. #death in/and #Burneyland. Talk coming ahead on Oct. 27. Reading the Memoirs in slow motion is so challenging! Then we get to 1814, the year when Charles died. Who is the narrator? Has […]

Frances Burney and the Muses. Interartistic Conversations by Fran Saggini is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0. Based on a work at https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/fsaggini/?p=110. I am thrilled to report that I have a forthcoming edited collection, provisionally titled Frances Burney and the Muses. Interartistic Conversations, coming out with Palgrave Macmillan in 2022. This […]

      Cluedoing Burney by Fran Saggini is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0. Based on a work at https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/fsaggini/?p=88. This booklet has a lot to do with my upcoming collection @PalgraveLit on ‘#FrancesBurney and the #arts.’ I am not going to give much away at present but I still invite […]

Housing Frances Burney by Fran Saggini is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0. Based on a work at https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/fsaggini/?p=69.   Part of my project at UoE is to find new housing for Frances Burney. ‘Housing’ has a metaphorical meaning here, of course. But it not always so in my research. Tonight, I […]