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Author Biography

Peter Sabor, FRSC, is Distinguished James McGill Professor Emeritus at McGill University, Montreal. His publications on Frances Burney include 'The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney' and co-edited editions of 'Cecilia,' 'The Wanderer,' her selected journals and letters, and her collected plays. He is general editor of 'The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney' (6 volumes.) and 'Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney' (2 volumes.). He is also general editor of 'The Letters of Dr Charles Burney' (6 volumes, in progress) and of 'The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Frances Burney', forthcoming in 7 volumes, for which he has edited 'Evelina.'

Abstract

The origins of McGill University’s Burney Centre go back to 1945, when Joyce Hemlow was appointed to McGill’s Department of English. After publishing a major biography of Frances Burney in 1958, Hemlow initiated what she termed the Burney Project: a research centre devoted to producing scholarly editions of the journals and letters of Burney and her father, the music historian Charles Burney. The Frances Burney edition was completed, in 25 volumes, in 2019; five volumes of the Charles Burney edition have appeared to date, with a sixth and final volume to follow. Joyce Hemlow was succeeded as Director of the Burney Project by Lars Troide, who retired in 2002. I served as Director of the Burney Centre, as it was renamed, from my appointment at McGill in 2003 to my own retirement and the closure of the Centre in 2024. The Centre’s extensive holdings have since been transferred to McGill’s Rare Books and Special Collections.

Keywords

Burney Centre, McGill University, Editing Projects, Frances Burney, Charles Burney

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