Editing Frances Burney (section)

==Comedies==
In the period 1797–1801 Burney wrote three comedies that remained unpublished in her lifetime: ''Love and Fashion'', ''A Busy Day'' and ''The Woman Hater''. The last is partly a reworking of subject-matter from ''[[The Witlings]]'', but with fewer satirical elements and more emphasis on reforming her characters' faults.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saggini |first=Francesca |title=From Evelina to The Woman-Hater: Frances Burney and the Joyce of Dramatic Rewriting, in Studi settecenteschi nr. 20, Bibliopolis, Napoli, 2000, pp. 315-33 |url=https://dspace.unitus.it/handle/2067/37?mode=full |access-date=29 April 2012 |website=UnitusOpen}}</ref> First performed in December 2007 at the [[Orange Tree Theatre]] in [[Richmond, London|Richmond]], it retains one of the central characters, Lady Smatter – an absent-minded but inveterate quoter of poetry, perhaps meant as a comic rendering of a Bluestocking. All other characters in ''The Woman Hater'' differ from those in ''The Witlings''.<ref>''The Witlings'' and ''The Woman-Hater'', plays by Fanny Burney; ed. Peter Sabor and Geoffrey Sill, Broadview Press (2002) {{ISBN|1-55111-378-3}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=THE WOMAN HATER by Frances Burney |url=https://www.redbulltheater.com/the-woman-hater |access-date=2022-04-29 |website=Red Bull Theater}}</ref>