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Fanny Burney and Her Friends: Select Passages from Her Diary and Other Writings

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The collection presents edited passages from a writer's diaries and other writings, tracing childhood and family background, formative friendships, and domestic life alongside literary pursuits. Vignettes depict salon and theatrical society, relationships with mentors and fellow authors, and practical details of publishing and reception of her early novel. The editor arranges memoir, correspondence, and anecdote to illuminate personal temperament, artistic ambition, and the social networks of London literary life in which the author moved.

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Title: Fanny Burney and Her Friends: Select Passages from Her Diary and Other Writings

Author: Fanny Burney

Editor: L. B. Seeley

Release date: July 10, 2018 [eBook #57472]

Language: English

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Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation.

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E. Burney.        A Dawson Ph.fc.        C. Turner
Frances Burney.

FANNY BURNEY
AND HER FRIENDS

SELECT PASSAGES FROM HER DIARY AND
OTHER WRITINGS
EDITED BY
L. B. SEELEY, M.A.
Sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
AUTHOR OF
“HORACE WALPOLE AND HIS WORLD”
NEW EDITION
LONDON
SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED
Essex Street, Strand
1895