This document provides biographical information on multiple 18th century British authors, including James Boswell, Frances Burney, and an excerpt from Burney's novel Evelina. It notes that James Boswell was a lawyer, diarist, and author best known for his biography Life of Samuel Johnson. It also provides details on Frances Burney's life, works, and influences, including her novels Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. An excerpt from Evelina is included that depicts the author's critique of men's behavior towards women at dances.

1. Gabriela Arellano Urizar
Sonia Blázquez Quiroga
Macarena Urbina Martínez
Julia da Veiga Magalhaes
María del Pilar Yagüe González

2. Sonia Blázquez Quiroga
Macarena Urbina Martínez

3.  James Boswell, 9th Laird
of Auchinleck (born in
Edinburgh, 1740 – died in
London, 1795)
 Lawyer, diarist, and
author
 Marriage with Margaret
Montgomerie, in 1769
 His master piece
was Life of Samuel
Johnson

4. Life of Samuel Johnson (1791):
 Biography about his friend Samuel Johnson
 Important stage in the development of the
modern genre of biography
 Greatest biography written in English

5.  London Journal (1762-1763)
 An account of Corsica (1768)
 The Hypochondriack (1777-1783)
 The journal of a tour to the Hebrides (1786)
 No Abolition of Slavery poem (1791)

6.  Samuel Johnson
 Enlightenment personalities (Hume & Adam
Smith)
 Rousseau
 He also has influence in modern authors
like Harold Bloom, Philip Collins and
Frederick Pottle

7. “To write the Life of him who excelled all
mankind in writing the lives of others,
and who, whether we consider his
extraordinary endowments or his various
works, has been equaled by few in any
age, is an arduous, and may be reckoned
in me a presumptuous task…”- James
Boswell (Life of Samuel Johnson)

8. Gabriela Arellano Urizar
Julia da Veiga Magalhaes
María del Pilar Yagüe González

9.  Known as Frances Burney, Funny Burney and
Madame d´Arblay.
 The third in a family of six.
 Mother: whose sister was a refuge French
catholic who influenced Frances. Esther died
when Frances was ten years old.
 Father: musician, musicologist and compositor.
 SELF-EDUCATION.
 Her sisters studied in Paris.
 She learnt to read as an amusement although she
was considered dyslexic.

10.  Married with Alexandre D´Arblay when the
French Revolution had begun. Her father
didn´t approve it.
 1802: they went to Paris because of the job
of Alexandre.
 1810: Frances began to suffer a cancer:
mastectomy.
 1812: they returned to England.
 1840: she died.

11. When the dreadful steel was plunged into the breast –
cutting through veins – arteries – flesh – nerves – I needed
no injunctions not to restrain my cries. I began a scream
that lasted unintermittingly during the whole time of the
incision – & I almost marvel that it rings not in my Ears
still? so excruciating was the agony. When the wound was
made, & the instrument was withdrawn, the pain seemed
undiminished, for the air that suddenly rushed into those
delicate parts felt like a mass of minute but sharp &
forked poniards, that were tearing the edges of the
wound. I concluded the operation was over – Oh no!
presently the terrible cutting was renewed – & worse than
ever, to separate the bottom, the foundation of this
dreadful gland from the parts to which it adhered – Again
all description would be baffled – yet again all was not
over, – Dr. Larry rested but his own hand, & -- Oh heaven!
– I then felt the knife (rack)ling against the breast bone –
scraping it!

12.  Diaries and journals (1768-1840).
 The History of Caroline Evelyn.
 Evelina: Or The History of A Young Lady's Entrance into the World.
 The Witlings, 1779.
 Blank-verse tragedies: Hubert de Vere, The Siege of Pevensey,
Elberta and Edwy and Elgiva.
 Comedies: Love and Fashion, A Busy Day and The Woman Hater.
 Cecilia: Or, Memoirs of an Heiress, 1782.
 Camilla: Or, A Picture of Youth, 1796.
 The Wanderer: Or, Female Difficulties,1814.
 Memoirs of Doctor Burney, 1832.

13.  Rousseau.
 Dr. Samuel Johnson.
 Marivaux.
 Johnson.
 Fielding.
 Richardson.
 Smollet.

14. “Remember: if to pride and prejudice you
owe your miseries, so wonderfully is good
and evil balanced, that to pride and
prejudice you will also owe your
termination.”
Extracted from Burney’s novel: “Cecilia”.

15. “ It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda; or,
in short, only some work in which the
greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in
which the most thorough knowledge of
human nature, the happiest delineation of its
varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and
humour, are conveyed to the world in the
best–chosen language.”
Northanger Abbey

16.  First published anonymously in 1778.
 Epistolary novel and a satire of England’s 18th
century society.
 Comic and witty.
 Critical success.

17. This admirable authoress has named her most elaborate
performance, Evelina; or, a Young Lady's Entrance into the
World.
Perhaps this may seem a rather bold attempt and title for
a female whose knowledge of the world is very confined,
and whose inclinations, as well as situation, incline her to
a private and domestic life. All I can urge, is that I have
only presumed to trace the accidents and adventures to
which a “young woman” is liable; I have not pretended to
show the world what it actually is, but what it appears to
a girl of seventeen: and so far as that, surely any girl who
is past seventeen may safely do? The motto of my excuse
shall be taken from Pope's “Temple of Fame”:
“In every work, regard the writer's end;
None e’er can compass more than they intend.”

18. “The gentlemen, as they passed and repassed,
looked as if they thought we were quite at their
disposal, and only waiting for the honour of their
commands; and they sauntered about, in a
careless indolent manner, as if with a view to
keep us id suspence. I don t speak of this in
regard to Miss Mirvan and myself only, but to the
ladies in general: and I thought it so provoking,
that I determined in my own mind that, far from
humouring such airs, I would rather not dance at
all, than with any one who should seem to think
me ready to accept the first partner who would
condescend to take me.”