Fanny Burney
Subtitle: a biography
By: Claire Harman.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.; Novelists, English -- 18th century -- Biography.; Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.; Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Claire Harman's biography of Fanny Burney gives us the woman, her world and the early-blooming artist whose acute grasp of social nuance, gift for satire, drama and skillful play among large casts of characters won her comparison with the best of Smollett, Richardson and Fielding, the admiration of Jane Austen and Lord Byron and a secure place in the pantheon of the English novel."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-404) and index.
Originally published: London : HarperCollins, 2000.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. A Low Race of Mortals 3; title: 2. A Romantick Girl 3i; title: 3. Female Caution 58; title: 4. An Accidental Author 85; title: 5. Entrance into the World 0o7; title: 6. Downright Scribler 125; title: 7. Cecilia 147; title: 8. Change and Decay ,68; title: 9. Retrograde Motion i99; title: 10. Taking Sides 224; title: 11. The Cabbage-Eaters 247; title: 12. Winds and Waves 274; title: 13. The Wanderer 29 6; title: 14. Keeping Life Alive 333.