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Fanny Burney

A Biography

Fanny Burney( )
Author: Harman, Claire
ISBN:978-0-679-44658-3
Publication Date:Aug 2001
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Knopf
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $30.00
Book Description:

Claire Harman's full-scale biography of Fanny Burney, the first literary woman novelist and a true child of eighteenth-century England and the Enlightenment, is rich with insights and pleasures as it brings us into the extraordinary life (1752-1840) of the woman Virginia Woolf called ìthe mother of English fiction. We are present at Mrs. Thrale's dinner party when the twenty-six-year-old Fanny has the incomparable thrill of hearing Dr. Johnson himself admiringly acknowledge her...
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Book Details
Pages:448
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Women Authors
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Book Weight:1.85 Pounds



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