Jonty Claypole

You're just going to have to marry this guy.

And this is where Charles emerges as a delight.

Charles Burney encourages her briefly and then she bursts into tears.

And then her father says, dear Fanny,

don't worry, you don't have to marry him.

You can stay here as long as you want.

And so she doesn't.

And it's after that moment that she sits down and writes to Evelina.

She has this kind of creative freedom to do that.

I just want to finish on Frances Burney to connect her very directly to Jane Austen because Austen adored Burney and throughout her books gives us lots of hints and clues of the influence

Bernie had over her.

So Inet Evelina follows the adventures of Evelina until she eventually marries Lord Orville.

But the villain of the piece is a man called Sir Clement Willoughby, who's always trying to kind of force himself upon Evelina.

And Jane Austen takes the name Willoughby, of course, for her villain in Sense and Sensibility.

So we've got that connection.

And then in Cecilia, which was Burney's next novel in 1782, at the very end of the book, Frances Burney coins the phrase pride and prejudice.

Yeah.

And then the final kind of smoking quill here is when Frances Burney was publishing, about to publish Camilla in 1796, she set up a subscription.

This was quite a common tactic was you set up a subscription and people who liked you and your writing would pledge to buy the book in advance.

It was the equivalent of GoFundMe or something.