 | Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 3: The Streatham Years: Part 1, 1778-1779 Subjects: Burney Fanny 1752–1840 -- Correspondence; Burney Fanny 1752–1840 -- Diaries; Novelists English -- 18th century -- Correspondence; Novelists English -- 18th century -- Diaries; At the beginning of 1778 twenty-five-year-old Fanny Burney was an unknown. By year's end, however, she had emerged as the author of Evelina, or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World, a universally acclaimed novel which admirers ranked with the works of Fielding and Richardson. Troide Lars E. : Fanny Burney was best known in her own time as the author of Evilina and other novels. Her modern reputation, however, rests primarily on her extensive journals and letters. The third of eleven children of Charles Burney, an eminent musician, author, and composer, she began keeping a journal of her experiences in London's musical, theatrical, and literary circles as a shy and precocious girl of 15. |
