Fanny Burney : a biography

著者

• Harman, Claire

書誌事項

Fanny Burney : a biography

Claire Harman

Flamingo, 2001

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

"First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2000"--t.p. verso

内容説明・目次

内容説明

'Dazzling...full of special delights. Harman excels in the vivid presentation of scenes, the selection of detail...[a] marvellous and beautifully written book.' Elspeth Barker, Independent on Sunday At the age of fifteen, Fanny Burney made a bonfire of all her works, 'with the sincere intention to extinguish for ever in their ashes her scribbling propensity'. She was anxious that she might turn into an author, a fate incompatible - for a woman - with respectability. Her hope was in vain. Not only was she to write four novels ('Evelina', 'Cecilia', 'Camilla' and 'The Wanderer'), all of which are still in print, she also kept a voluminous diary for the next seventy years and was a prolific letter-writer. Daughter of the eminent music historian Dr Charles Burney; friend of Sheridan, Garrick, Burke and Johnson; second keeper of the robes to George III's Queen Charlotte; wife to a refugee French aristocrat; detained for ten years in revolutionary France; horrified witness of the aftermath of Waterloo; victim of a mastectomy without anaesthetic...Fanny Burney's life was as eventful as any novel.

「Nielsen BookData」 より

詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA63350689
• ISBN:
  • 0006550363
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: xxviii, 431 p., [16] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 20 cm
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 823.6
• 件名:
  • BLSH : Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840
  • LCSH : Women novelists, English -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Novelists, English -- 18th century