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John Mullan: Fanny Burney, 23 August 2001
Fanny Burney: A Biography
by Claire Harman.
Flamingo, 464 pp., £8.99, October 2001,0 00 655036 3 Show More
by Claire Harman.
Flamingo, 464 pp., £8.99, October 2001,
Faithful Handmaid: Fanny Burney at the Court of King George III
by Hester Davenport.
Sutton, 224 pp., £25, June 2000,0 7509 1881 0 Show More
by Hester Davenport.
Sutton, 224 pp., £25, June 2000,
“... stage of her adult life: they also provide a running commentary on her times. She is a witness to George III’s derangement in 1788, sequestered with him and the Queen in the Palace at Kew. She attends the trial of Warren Hastings. She experiences the Napoleonic regime first-hand during an enforced stay in France between 1803 and 1812. In her teens and ... ”