`` Fanny and Mrs. Godwin will probably be glad to hear that Mary has safely recovered from a very favorable confinement, and that her child is well ''.

" Her portraits Fanny Travis Cochran, Dorothea and Francesca, and Ernesta and her Little Brother, are fine examples of her skill in painting children ; Ernesta with Nurse, one of a series of essays in luminous white, was a highly original composition, seemingly without precedent.

George next paid attention to Anne Henderson where he lodged with her family, but when she also rejected him he transferred his attentions to her sister Frances ( Fanny ), who was nine years his senior.

She also had a half-brother, Robert ( 1802 – 64 ), and half-sister, Fanny ( 1805 – 82 ), from her father's previous marriage to Harriet Poynton (? 1780 – 1809 ).

Never quite losing his Devonshire accent, he was not only an amiable and original conversationalist but a friendly and generous host, so that Fanny Burney recorded in her diary that he had " a suavity of disposition that set everybody at their ease in his society ", and William Makepeace Thackeray believed " of all the polite men of that age, Joshua Reynolds was the finest gentleman.

Writing to another woman by whom she had recently felt betrayed, Wollstonecraft declared, " The roses will bloom when there's peace in the breast, and the prospect of living with my Fanny gladdens my heart :— You know not how I love her.

" Wollstonecraft's first novel Mary: A Fiction, in part, addressed her relationship with Fanny Blood.

On 9 December 1869, Sacher-Masoch and his mistress Baroness Fanny Pistor signed a contract making him her slave for a period of six months, with the stipulation that the Baroness wear furs as often as possible, especially when she was in a cruel mood.

Jane Austen's niece Fanny danced quadrilles and in their correspondence Jane mentions that she finds them much inferior to the cotillions of her own youth.

In 1833 Fanny Kemble, an English actress visiting Georgia, noted in her journal: " The slaves themselves entertain the very highest contempt for white servants, whom they designate as ' poor white trash '".

* In John Cleland's Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Fanny goes from poor orphaned country girl to wealthy skilled courtesan eventually finding her one true love and retiring to marriage.

Jane Austen, who referred to Fanny Burney as " the first of English novelists ," in Northanger Abbey refers to her inspiring novels:

Her mother Fanny separated from her father Henry in 1840, when Mary was five.

Austen almost never refers to specific dates or historical events in her novels, but wartime England forms part of the general backdrop to several of them: in Pride and Prejudice ( 1813, but possibly written during the 1790s ), the local militia ( civilian volunteers ) has been called up for home defence and its officers play an important role in the plot ; in Mansfield Park ( 1814 ), Fanny Price's brother William is a midshipman ( officer in training ) in the Royal Navy ; and in Persuasion ( 1818 ), Frederic Wentworth and several other characters are naval officers recently returned from service.

There were parodies of popular British TV entertainers such as Eamonn Andrews (" Seamus Android ", played by Pertwee ), Simon Dee, Wilfred Pickles ( both played by Williams ), and " Daphne Whitethigh ", presumably based on journalist Katharine Whitehorn and played by Marsden, a development of Fanny Haddock, her Fanny Cradock take-off from Beyond Our Ken.

In 1890 Robert Louis Stevenson, his wife Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson, and her son Lloyd Osbourne sailed on the Janet Nicoll, a trading steamer owned by Henderson and Macfarlane of Auckland, New Zealand, which operated between Sydney, Auckland and into the central Pacific.

Her first competition was a disappointment, but in her third race, she set a national record in the 800 m. Fanny Koen soon made the Dutch team, although as a sprinter, not a middle distance runner.

Six weeks before the Championships, Blankers-Koen gave birth to Fanny Junior, but this had not stopped her from resuming training shortly afterwards.

Fanny Blankers-Koen thereby became the first Dutch athlete to win an Olympic title in athletics, but she was more concerned with her next event, the 80 m hurdles.

In 1950, she broke the national record in the 200 m, and some journalists already dubbed her as the " new Fanny ".

On 7 August 1955, Fanny Blankers-Koen was victorious for the last time, winning the national title in the shot put, her 58th Dutch title.

Fanny also spends holidays with her Uncle Matthew Radlett, Aunt Sadie, and numerous cousins at Alconleigh.

In The Pursuit of Love, Fanny narrates the story of her cousin Linda Radlett.

* Jassy Radlett, Fanny's cousin, is a regular visitor who never fails to cheer up Fanny

According to C. Bernard Ruffin, John and Mercy were possibly first cousins, however " by the time Fanny Crosby came to write her memoirs 1906, the fact that her mother and father were related ... had become a source of embarrassment, and she maintained that she did not know anything about his lineage ".

His parents Barney ( Beryl ) Schwartz and Fanny ( Fruma ) Goldman Schwartz were first cousins who had run away from their home in Belaya Tserkov ( Bila Tserkva, Ukraine ) to come to America in 1904.

His alter ego, Captain Clegg, also makes appearances, where he is mentioned to have had a brief romantic liaison with future teammate Fanny Hill.

In the meantime, the Steele sisters have come to London as guests of John and Fanny Dashwood.

In London, William Dorrit, imprisoned as a debtor, has been a resident of Marshalsea debtor's prison for so long that his three children — snobbish Fanny, idle Edward ( known as Tip ), and Amy ( known as Little Dorrit ) — have all grown up there, though they are free to pass in and out of the prison as they please.

The narrator is Fanny, whose mother ( called " The Bolter " for her habit of serial monogamy ) and father have left her to be brought up by her Aunt Emily and the valetudinarian Davey, whom Emily marries early in the novel.

Uncle Matthew disapproves of Tony's German ancestry ( he believes that all foreigners are fiends ), and is furious when Linda and Fanny sneak away to Oxford to have luncheon with Tony.

She may also have been influenced by the role-models of her great-aunts Fanny von Arnstein and Sarah Levy, both lovers of music, the former the patroness of a well-known salon and the latter a skilled keyboard player in her own right.

This style ( and title ) of piano music was most successfully developed by Felix Mendelssohn, though some modern scholars assert that Fanny may have preceded him in the genre.

Slightly older than Fanny, Polly has " come out " in India and as such a beautiful and socially important debutante, is expected to have a very successful season in London.

The Nazis have left Job penniless and worse, George tells Fanny, and he calls on her to be generous.

The fact that the passionate descriptions of copulatory acts in Fanny Hill are written by a man from the point of view of a woman, and the fact that Fanny is obsessed by phallic size, have led some critics to suggest it is a homoerotic work.

Price is believed to have secretly helped her with money to go to Lisbon to aid her dear friend Fanny Blood.

Subsequent celebrity chefs have brought a sophistication to British cooking which was not a part of Fanny ’ s repertoire, however they have acknowledged her pioneering work, when purple piped potato brought excitement to a Britain of liver and bacon suppers.

Her series Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas is the only one of several she made to have been repeated in recent years, on the UK digital television channel Good Food, usually in the run-up to Christmas.

The Andrews identify her as their lost daughter, but have a twist to add to the tale: when Fanny was an infant, she was indeed stolen from her parents, but the thieves left behind a sickly infant Joseph in return, who was raised as their own.

At one such party, he catches L ' abbé de Vilecourt ( Bernard Giraudeau ) cheating at a game of wits, with the help of his lover, Madame de Blayac ( Fanny Ardant ), the beautiful and rich recent widow of Monsieur de Blayac, who was to have been Ponceludon's sponsor at court.

Two individuals, Trugernanner ( 1812 – 1876 ) and Fanny Cochrane Smith ( 1834 – 1905 ), are separately considered to have been the last people solely of Tasmanian descent.

Jo, Bessie and Fanny are joined by Robin and Joy, two children who have read all about the magic Faraway Tree in The Enchanted Wood, in some more exciting adventures in the lands at the top of the Tree.

Fanny and Dick, whose names now carry unfortunate connotations, have been renamed Frannie and Rick.

Numerous books have been written about Fanny Kemble and her family, including Deirdre David's A Performed Life ( 2007 ) and Vanessa Dickerson's inclusion of Kemble in Dark Victorians ( 2008 ).

Some recent biographies have focused on Kemble's role as an abolitionist, such as Catherine Clinton's Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars: The Story of America's Most Unlikely Abolitionist ( 2000 ).

As part of these plans, the Resistance have placed a radio in the bedroom of René's mother-in-law, Madame Fanny La Fan, as this is the only room nobody goes into unless they have to.