Publisher's Synopsis
Novelist Fanny Burney's life was notably colourful and adventurous; happily it was also one which she recorded in detail in journals and numerous letters which shows her to be an acute and frequently humorous observer of men and manners. Presented chronologically, this selection forms a continuous narrative of a remarkable life.;Readership: general and feminist; students of English literature and the history of the 18th and 19th centuries.
