Fanny Burney

A biography

von Claire Harman

476 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

'Dazzling...full of special delights. Harman excels in the vivid presentation of scenes, the selection of detail...[a] marvellous and beautifully written book.' Elspeth Barker, Independent on SundayAt the age of fifteen, Fanny Burney made a bonfire of all her works, 'with the sincere intention to extinguish for ever in their ashes her scribbling propensity'. She was anxious that she might turn into an author, a fate incompatible - for a woman - with respectability.Her hope was in vain. Not only was she to write four novels ('Evelina', 'Cecilia', 'Camilla' and 'The Wanderer'), all of which are still in print, she also kept a voluminous diary for the next seventy years and was a prolific letter-writer. Daughter of the eminent music historian Dr Charles Burney; friend of Sheridan, Garrick, Burke and Johnson; second keeper of the robes to George III's Queen Charlotte; wife to a refugee French aristocrat; detained for ten years in revolutionary France; horrified witness of the aftermath of Waterloo; victim of a mastectomy without anaesthetic...Fanny Burney's life was as eventful as any novel.

• Reihe: Flamingo
• ISBN: 9780006550365
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2001
• Größe: 198 x 129 mm
• Verlag: HarperCollins