The Burney Society (UK) is closely allied with the North American branch of the Society and supports the work of the Burney Centre at McGill University, Montreal, where the Burney Journals are edited. For more information, visit its website here.

Every June, we have an annual meeting with speakers, which are held in locations with Burney connections: in recent years we have been to Juniper Hall in Surrey, where Fanny met her husband Alexandre d’Arblay, to Parham House, in Sussex, where there are portraits and memorabilia, and Chawton House Women’s Library in Hampshire, a beautiful house near Jane Austen’s cottage, which holds first editions of Burney’s work, contemporary illustrations of her novels, and portraits of eighteenth-century women.

Every two to three years The Burney Society arranges a two-day international conference. These events combine scholarship with dramatic and musical entertainments, social events, ceremonies and local tours.

2002: At Westminster we celebrated the 250th anniversary of Burney’s birth, unveiling a window in Poet’s Corner.

2005: In Bath we began with a ceremony following the restoration of the ‘sarcophagus’ in St Swithin’s churchyard  which commemorates Frances Burney d’Arblay and her son Alexander.

2007: The conference in Windsor Castle precincts marked the beginning of the editing of Burney’s Court Journals. A Plaque was unveiled on the Castle walls recording the friendship of Mrs. Delaney and Fanny Burney.

2010: Our latest conference was held in Paris, where we examined the subject ‘Women under Napoleon’. Our aim was to promote Anglo-French relations and to set Burney’s work in the context of other women writers of the period, both French and English.

Officers

President: Bill Fraser

Chairman: Hester Davenport

Secretaries/Treasurers: Jacqui Grainger

Committee members: Karin Fernald, Helen Cooper, Elizabeth Burney Parker

Publications Officer: Tracey Kelly

Webeditor: Elles Smallegoor

Editor, The Burney Letter: Lorna Clark

Editor, The Burney Journal: Marilyn Francus

Patrons

Jean Bowden

Charles Burney

Kate Chisholm