{"product_id":"9780007391899_fanny-burney-a-biography-text-only","title":"Fanny Burney: A biography (Text Only)","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Claire Harman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284833190037,"sku":"9780007391899","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007391899.png?v=1776992054","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007391899_fanny-burney-a-biography-text-only","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}