Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Burney Family Tree

Preface

A Note on Nomenclature

  1   A Low Race of Mortals

  2   A Romantick Girl

  3   Female Caution

  4   An Accidental Author

  5   Entrance into the World

  6   Downright Scribler

  7   Cecilia

  8   Change and Decay

  9   Retrograde Motion

10   Taking Sides

11   The Cabbage-Eaters

12   Winds and Waves

13   The Wanderer

14   Keeping Life Alive

Post Mortem

Appendix A: Fanny Burney Undergoes a Memory Test

Appendix B: Additions to O.E.D. from the writings of Fanny Burney, compiled by J.N. Waddell

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Notes

Praise

By the Same Author

About the Publisher