Editing Frances Burney (section)

==Marriage==
[[File:Juniper Hall Field Centre - geograph.org.uk - 111395.jpg|thumb|[[Juniper Hall]], near [[Box Hill, Surrey|Box Hill]] in [[Surrey]], where Burney met Alexandre d'Arblay]]

In 1790–1791 Burney wrote four [[Blank verse|blank-verse]] tragedies: ''Hubert de Vere'', ''The Siege of Pevensey'', ''Elberta'' and ''Edwy and Elgiva'', only the last of which was performed. One of a profusion of paintings and literary works about the early English king [[Eadwig]] (''Edwy'') and his wife [[Ælfgifu, wife of Eadwig|Ælfgifu]] (''Elgiva'') to appear in the later 18th century, it met with public failure, opening in London in March for only one night.<ref>Encyclopædia Britannica 451; ODNB entry for Eadwig: [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8572 Retrieved 18 August 2011. Subscription required.]</ref>

When the [[French Revolution]] began in 1789, Burney was among many literary figures in England who sympathized with its early ideals of equality and social justice.<ref name="Commire, Klezmer 231"/> During this period Burney became acquainted with some French exiles known as "Constitutionalists", who had [[French emigration (1789–1815)|fled to England]] in August 1791 and were living at [[Juniper Hall]], near [[Mickleham, Surrey|Mickleham]], Surrey, where Burney's sister Susanna lived. She quickly became close to General Alexandre d'Arblay (1754-1818), an artillery officer who had been [[Adjutant general|adjutant-general]] to [[Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette|Lafayette]]. D'Arblay taught her French and introduced her to the writer [[Germaine de Staël]].

Burney's father disapproved of d'Arblay's poverty, [[Anti-Catholicism in the United Kingdom|Catholicism]], and ambiguous social status as an [[émigré]]. Nonetheless, she and d'Arblay were married on 28 July 1793 at St Michaels and All Angels Church in [[Mickleham, Surrey|Mickleham]]. The same year she produced her [[pamphlet]] ''Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy''. This short work resembled other pamphlets produced by French sympathisers in England, calling for financial support for the revolutionary cause. It is noteworthy for the way that Burney employed her rhetorical skills in the name of tolerance and human compassion. On 18 December 1794, Burney gave birth to a son, Alexander Charles Louis (died 19 January 1837), who took [[holy orders]] and became minister of [[Ely Chapel, Holborn|Ely Chapel]], London, and [[perpetual curate]] of [[Camden Town]] Chapel.<ref>Biographical Register of Christ's College, 1505–1905, vol. II, 1666–1905, John Peile, Cambridge University Press, 1913, p. 385.</ref><ref>The Annual Register, or a view of the History and Politics of the year 1840, J. G. F. & J. Rivington, London, 1841, p. 150.</ref> Her sister Charlotte's remarriage in 1798 to the pamphleteer [[Ralph Broome (pamphleteer)|Ralph Broome]] caused her and her father further consternation, as did the move by her sister Susanna and penurious brother-in-law Molesworth Phillips and their family to Ireland in 1796.