Malice
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,
“... and therefore that if she marry her husband should adopt this name, too. She falls in love with Mortimer Delvile, whose proud aristocratic family value their name above all else. Mr Monckton, an especially cunning fortune-hunter, is continually scheming to get her. It is not surprising that the novel, drawing much on the literary mode of wounded ... ”