The article discusses the four French notebooks published by Frances Burney d'Arblay, a novelist and playwright, along with the outline of the ways on how to use Burney scholarship. Topics include the inclusion of a series of bilingual musings between d'Arblay and her husband Alexandre d'Arblay, grammatical exercises on syntactic constructions or verb tenses, and the importance of the letter drafts for the biography of d'Arblay.