Editing Frances Burney (section)

==''Camilla''==
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Burney and her new husband, General Alexandre d'Arblay, were saved from poverty in 1796 by the publication of Burney's "courtesy novel" ''[[Camilla (Burney novel)|Camilla]], or a Picture of Youth'', a story of frustrated love and impoverishment.<ref name="Commire, Klezmer 230" /> The first edition sold out; she made £1000 on the novel and sold the copyright for another £1000. This enabled them to build a house in [[Westhumble]] near [[Dorking]] in Surrey, which they called Camilla Cottage.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Saggini |first=Francesca |year=2023 |title=Frances Burney: A Houstory |journal=[[European Romantic Review]] |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=223–42 |doi=10.1080/10509585.2023.2181487}}</ref> Their life at this time was by all accounts happy, but the illness and death in 1800 of Burney's sister and close friend Susanna cast a shadow and ended a lifelong correspondence that had been the motive and basis for most of Burney's journal writing. However, she resumed her journal at the request of her husband, for the benefit of her son.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica'', p. 452.</ref>