[Gutenberg 6457] • The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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- Authors
- Burney, Fanny
- Tags
- english -- 19th century -- diaries , burney , english -- 18th century -- diaries , fanny , history , english -- 18th century -- correspondence , 1752-1840 -- correspondence , novelists , english -- 19th century -- correspondence , 1752-1840 -- diaries , great britain -- court and courtiers -- history -- 19th century , biography , great britain -- court and courtiers -- history -- 18th century
- Date
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.51 MB
- Lang
- en
Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and, after her marriage, as Madame d’Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in Lynn Regis, now King’s Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to musical historian Dr Charles Burney (1726–1814) and Mrs Esther Sleepe Burney (1725–62). The third of six children, she was self-educated and began writing what she called her “scribblings” at the age of ten.
Although her novels were hugely popular during her lifetime, following her death Burney’s reputation as a writer suffered at the hands of biographers and critics who felt that the extensive diaries, published posthumously in 1841, offered a more interesting and accurate portrait of eighteenth-century life. Today, however, critics are returning to her novels and plays with a renewed interest in her perspective on the social lives and struggles of women in a predominantly male-oriented culture. Scholars continue to value Burney’s diaries as well, for their candid depictions of eighteenth-century English society.