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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,
“... no accident that two substantial biographies should appear within a year of each other, along with Hester Davenport’s account of Burney’s five hellish years at Court, as Second Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte. They join several other biographies on the library shelf. It is worth asking – as Harman and Chisholm, for all their virtues, do not ... ”
