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Frances Fanny Burney è stata una scrittrice britannica, figlia del famoso storico della musica e compositore Charles Burney. Fu conosciuta anche come Madame d'Arblay dopo le nozze con un generale francese in esilio. La sua opera più famosa è Evelina.
Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. In 1786–1790 she held the post of "Keeper of the Robes" to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George III's queen.
Frances Burney (born June 13, 1752, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England—died January 6, 1840, London) was an English novelist and letter writer, who was the author of Evelina, a landmark in the development of the novel of manners. Burney was the daughter of musician and historian Charles Burney.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Devota figlia di Charles Burney (1726-1814), noto compositore, storico della musica e autore del The Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771) 1, Fanny crebbe in una numerosa e agiata famiglia londinese.
Perciò, dopo I misteri di Udolpho di Ann Radcliffe (autrice di cui avevo già letto, tanti anni fa, Romanzo Siciliano), mi sono imbarcata nell’esplorazione di un’altra scrittrice particolarmente amata e citata da Miss Austen: Frances “Fanny” Burney (13 giugno 1752 – 6 gennaio 1840).
Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World is a novel written by English author Fanny Burney and first published in 1778. Although published anonymously, its authorship was revealed by the poet George Huddesford in what Burney called a "vile poem".
Frances Burney (1752 – 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and after marriage as Madame d’Arblay, was born in King’s Lynn, England, on June 13, 1752, to musical historian Dr. Charles Burney (1726-1814) and Mrs. Esther Sleepe Burney (1725-1762).
