Talk:Frances Burney

message: Hello, have I missed something or isn't there any analytical literary criticism of this novel cited in the references? I'm sure I've read that it's notorious for the one dimensional characters, only snobbish, or vulgar, or good, or whatever? 86.171.119.189 (talk) 16:06, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
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message: I am bringing this up here because the subject has the potential to be inflammatory so I don't want to just do an edit without explanation. But, with reference to the first line of this article, Burney is no longer "usually" known as Fanny. "Usually" implies something ongoing and that is not the case here: a glance at anything published about her in the last decade or two would make that clear. Certainly she was known as Fanny to her circle, and certainly she was known as Fanny to scholars until fairly recently. But without getting into a discussion of what using a diminutive of her name in a professional context may mean -- for there be dragons -- the fact remains that the way most of the scholarly community now names Burney has changed, just as it is now common usage to regularize the names of women authors in general (to drop the "Mrs."; to drop the husband's full name; &c). Some may deplore such changes and they might have a point -- the argument to respect the name by which the author was known in her own time is a reasonable one -- but an encyclopedia should reflect the actual terrain, surely? 
SO. I would like to throw this out here, and depending on any ensuing discussion, propose to edit the line back to read "also known as." It seems the most neutral formulation. scribblingwoman 18:56, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess I agree...("also known as Fanny") Keep sleeping, little dragon!--FlammingoParliament 22:00, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Beauty! scribblingwoman 23:40, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Shouldn't the page be called "Frances Burney" to reflect recent gender conventions? Awadewit Talk 04:23, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please ignore. I clicked on a link that took me here that said "Fanny Burney." Sorry. Awadewit Talk 04:24, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's in a name? 

message: The most important British female writer of the 18th century. One of the great British diarists, with the position of women as a recurrent theme. Ah well. Bmcln1 (talk) 18:32, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: LOW importance?

message: Someone noticed the ambiguity of my sentence about the novel as a Bildungsroman. It was unintentionally written to imply that the novel genre did not feature many female characters at the time. I meant the Bildungsroman genre. Thank you for keeping in the point I wanted to make about the Bildungsroman and for catching the error. I tried rewriting the sentence so that it is clear this time. Dlaitinen (talk) 21:10, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Bildungsroman blues

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