Women's Writing 1778-1838
Subtitle: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 28, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 716
ISBN-13: 9780192833136
First sentence: The third of the six surviving children from the first marriage of the music teacher and historian of music Dr Charles Burney, Frances Burney was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, and experimented in writing creatively at an early age, although she burned her childhood manuscripts on her fifteenth birthday in 1767.