A combination autobiography and biography of English novelist, Fanny Burney, provides a first-hand look at English society in the eighteenth century. Burney's first novel 'Evelina' was published anonymously and her subsequent satirical novels inspired Jane Austen.
Burney's journals extending over a 72-year period, include descriptions of Napoleon, her daring trip across occupied France, and on a personal level, her surgery without anaesthetic.
Edited, and with connecting passages, by Joyce Hemlow.
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