Fanny (Frances) Burney 1752-1840 wrote four novels the best known of which was Camilla. Read and enjoyed by Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf called her "the mother of English fiction." A best-seller and a celebrity in her own day, Burney was also diarist. Her recollections of George III and Samuel Johnson are full of interest.
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