The Burney Journal
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The Burney Journal
@burneyjournal.bsky.social
An annual publication of twenty years' standing, publishing peer-reviewed scholarship on the Burney family and their circles. Available in print subscription and online open-access formats.
https://theburneyjournal.library.mcgill.ca/about/submissions.
You can find all of these, and also browse open access back-issues of our Journal, by going to theburneyjournal.library.mcgill.ca/issue/view/56. Enjoy! and please share our articles with anyone whom you think might be interested. #FeelTheBurn (7/7)
The Burney Journal Vol. 20 (2025)
Published June 9, 2025
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June 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The final contribution is Sophie Coulombeau's review of Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, by @rebeccaromney.com. (6/7)
June 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM
In the “Year in Burney Studies 2022-24” Deborah Barnum contributes a heroic 3-year bibliography of monographs, articles, chapters, radio programs, theses & dissertations addressing the Burneys which have been published since 2021: 122 entries in total! Esp valuable for reasons outlined below...(5/7)
June 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM
In “Cecilia and the Eighteenth-Century Breakfast,” Madeline Maya explores the tonal, structural and conceptual importance of the breakfast table scene within Frances Burney’s second novel, Cecilia: or, Memoirs of an Heiress (1782). (4/7)
June 10, 2025 at 7:04 AM
In “General d’Arblay’s Mementoes of a Military Life,” Miriam Al Jamil examines several little-known material objects relating to General Alexandre d’Arblay, Frances Burney’s husband, in a quest to draw d’Arblay’s biography out from the prism of his wife’s writing. (3/7)
June 10, 2025 at 7:02 AM
In “‘Grateful acknowledgements to Captain Burney’: Poetry and History in Mary Russell Mitford’s Christina, the Maid of the South Seas,” Geoffrey Sill examines an Oceanic literary-historical collaboration between Mary Russell Mitford and James Burney, published in 1811. (2/7)
June 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Enormous thanks to: our editorial team, our peer reviewers, our digital support team at McGill, and @comicprintinguk.bsky.social for excellent print design and production!
June 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This vol contains three wonderful research articles looking at the fiction of Frances Burney, editorial activity of James Burney, & material mementoes of Alexandre d'Arblay. Plus a bumper bibliography of Burney publications 2022-24, & longform review of @rebeccaromney.com's JANE AUSTEN'S BOOKSHELF.
June 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Issue 20 will be coming very soon: watch this space!
May 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
We also publish reviews of books addressing the Burneys (Elements and Pivots are fine). If you would like to send us a book for review, or to put yourself forward as a reviewer, please get in touch: burney.editor@gmail.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
If you have a piece of scholarship on Burney(s), please consider us as a home for it. We can offer supportive editorship and relatively quick turnaround for manuscripts that pass our peer review process (submission window June-November, publication June the following year).
May 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically on our website:
theburneyjournal.library.mcgill.ca/about/submis....
We accept submissions f/ 5,000 to 7,500 words as a rule. Submissions must follow MLA guidelines and the journal
style sheet.
Submissions | The Burney Journal
theburneyjournal.library.mcgill.ca
May 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The Burney Journal invites submissions on all aspects of the
Burneys’ lives and careers in a variety of disciplines, including literature, history, art, music, and politics. We support & advocate for 18thc studies broadly, and particularly author studies, women's studies, and cultural studies.
May 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM