orig. Frances Burney
born June 13, 1752, King's Lynn, Norfolk, Eng.
died Jan. 6, 1840, London
English novelist.
The self-educated daughter of Evelina (1778), an epistolary novel about an unsure young girl's social development; a landmark in the evolution of the novel of manners, it pointed the way to {{link=Austen, Jane">Jane Austen 's novels. Her later novels include Cecilia (1782) and the potboiler Camilla (1796).
Fanny Burney, detail of an oil painting by her brother, E.F. Burney; in the National Portrait ...
By courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London