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Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy

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First published: 1793
Pages: 13

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Writing to the women of Great Britain in 1793, Fanny Burney asks for immediate help for French clergy driven from their country. Her short appeal presents their poverty as a public responsibility, urging small, prompt contributions while more lasting support is awaited. An opening apology explains why women, despite restrictions on their public role, can act openly in a cause of compassion.

Burney combines Christian arguments with practical concerns about food, illness and the use of donated money. She praises the displaced priests for following their consciences and warns that admiration means little without material aid. The forceful prose also reveals her alarm at events in revolutionary France.

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Fanny Burney

Fanny Burney (1752-1840), also known as Frances Burney or Madame d'Arblay, was an English novelist and diarist. Her satirical novels of manners, beginning with Evelina, shaped the domestic fiction later perfected by Jane Austen. Her journals give a vivid record of Georgian life and court.