Fanny Burney

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Fanny Burney (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

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In addition to editing the memoirs of her father—the noted organist, composer, and music historian Dr. Charles Burney (1726- 1814)—Fanny Burney wrote an Early Diary, 1768-1778 (1889) and then a later Diary and Letters, 1778-1840 (1842- 1846). The first work, not published until 1889, contains pleasant sketches of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, David Garrick, and Richard...

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