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==Plaques and other memorials== In addition to the gravestone erected in the churchyard of St Swithin, Bath, other memorials and plaques record Burney's life. A plaque on the wall at 84 High Street, [[King's Lynn]], shows where she and her father lived in the 1750s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frances Burney and Charles Burney green plaque |url=https://openplaques.org/plaques/42342 |access-date=2020-06-15 |website=openplaques.org}}</ref> In 1780, two years after the publication of Evelina, she stayed at 14 South Parade, Bath, with Mr and Mrs Thrale, who were great friends of Dr Johnson. A plaque on the wall of the house records her visit.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fanny Burney |url=http://bath-heritage.co.uk/burney.html |access-date=2020-06-15 |website=bath-heritage.co.uk}}</ref> At 78 West Street, [[Brighton]], Sussex a [[blue plaque]] records her visits to the Thrales' home there.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Henry Thrale, Hester Thrale, Samuel Johnson, and Frances Burney blue plaque |url=https://openplaques.org/plaques/975 |access-date=2020-06-15 |website=openplaques.org}}</ref> At Windsor Castle Wall, St Alban's Street, [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]], a plaque records the residence of [[Mary Delaney]] between 1785 and 1788, where she was frequently visited by Burney.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frances Burney and Mary Delany blue plaque |url=https://openplaques.org/plaques/1810 |access-date=2020-06-15 |website=openplaques.org}}</ref> A blue plaque on a wall in Chapel Lane, [[Westhumble]], Surrey records the d'Arblays' life there in their cottage, 'Camilla', which they built and in which they lived between 1797 and 1801.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frances Burney and Alexandre D'Arblay blue plaque |url=https://openplaques.org/plaques/1119 |access-date=2020-06-15 |website=openplaques.org}}</ref> At St Margaret's Vicarage, St Margaret's Place, [[King's Lynn]] a blue plaque records Burney's regular visits there, where she observed the social life of Lynn.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frances Burney and St Margaret's Vicarage green plaque |url=https://openplaques.org/plaques/1705 |access-date=2020-06-15 |website=openplaques.org}}</ref> [[Elizabeth Goudge]]'s four-act play, "Fanny Burney" (in ''Three Plays: Suomi, The BrontΓ«s of Haworth, Fanny Burney'': Gerald Duckworth, London, 1939) has scenes from the life of Frances Burney from 1768 to 1840. Under the title "Joy Will Come Back", the play was performed in London, in the Arts Theatre in 1937. Under the published title, "Fanny Burney", it was performed at Oldham, Lancashire, in 1949. A [[Royal Society of Arts]] brown plaque records her period of residence at 11 Bolton Street, [[Mayfair]].<ref name="EngHet">{{Cite web |url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/discover/blue-plaques/search/burney-fanny-1752-1840-a.k.a.-madame-darblay |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705003643/www.english-heritage.org.uk/discover/blue-plaques/search/burney-fanny-1752-1840-a.k.a.-madame-darblay |archive-date=5 July 2011 |title=Burney, Fanny (1752β1840) |publisher=English Heritage |access-date=23 October 2012}}</ref> On 13 June 2002 the Burney Society of North America<ref>{{Cite web|title=Burney Society|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/burneycentre/burney-society|access-date=2021-10-29|website=Burney Centre}}</ref> and the Burney Society UK<ref>{{Cite web|title=Burney Society UK β Celebrating the work of Frances Burney, her family and contemporaries|url=https://burneysociety.uk/|access-date=2021-10-29}}</ref> unveiled a memorial panel in the new [[Poets' Corner]] window in [[Westminster Abbey]] in memory of Frances Burney.<ref>{{Cite web|last=pixeltocode.uk|first=PixelToCode|title=Frances and Charles Burney|url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/frances-and-charles-burney|access-date=2021-10-29|website=Westminster Abbey}}</ref> In 2013, a marble plaque was unveiled in the gallery of [[Church of St Swithin, Bath|St Swithin's Church, Bath]], to record Burney's life. This replaces two original plaques β one to her and one to her half-sister Sarah Harriet β that were lost. In 1958, the St Swithin's church authorities had sought to protect the plaques by removing them during renovations to the church organ, but they later disappeared.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Davenport |first=Hester |date=2013 |title=Fanny Burney's Bath Plaque Unveiled β Number One London |url=http://numberonelondon.net/2013/06/fanny-burneys-bath-plaque-unveiled/ |access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref>
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