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Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. In 1786–1790 she held the post of "Keeper of the Robes" to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , George III's queen.
Jun 9, 2024 · Frances Burney (born June 13, 1752, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England—died January 6, 1840, London) was an English novelist and letter writer, who was the author of Evelina, a landmark in the development of the novel of manners. Burney was the daughter of musician and historian Charles Burney. She educated herself by omnivorous reading at home.
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Frances Burney was born on June 13, 1752, in King's Lynn, Norfolk. She was the daughter of Charles Burney (1726-1814) and his first wife, Esther Sleepe (c.1725-1762). From the time young Fanny learned her alphabet, she was a writer, composing odes, plays, songs, farces, and poems at an early age. She burned them all at age 15, most likely under ...
Frances Burney. Frances Burney (1752 – 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and after marriage as Madame d’Arblay, was born in King’s Lynn, England, on June 13, 1752, to musical historian Dr. Charles Burney (1726-1814) and Mrs. Esther Sleepe Burney (1725-1762). The third of six children, she was self-educated, and began writing what she ...
Before there was Jane Austen or even the gleam in Mr. Bronte’s eye that would engender his three novelist daughters, there was Frances (Fanny) Burney, master of the novel of social courtship, and according to Virginia Woolf, “the mother of English fiction.”. Born in 1752, Burney grew up with her devout musician/writer father, a ...
Frances Burney, byname Fanny Burney, (born June 13, 1752, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, Eng.—died Jan. 6, 1840, London), English novelist. The self-educated daughter of musician and historian Charles Burney, she wrote lively accounts of his social musical evenings. Her habit of recording observations of society led to Evelina (1778), an epistolary ...
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Early 20th-century writer Virginia Woolf referred to Frances (often known as Fanny) Burney as the “Mother of English Fiction.”. Born into a family of musicians, Burney had little formal education but learned and loved to read and write. Like many early women writers, Burney published her first novel Evelina anonymously, and it met with ...
