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Fanny Burney’s Diary

‘A selection from the diary and letters’ edited by John Wain. “You little character-monger!” exclaimed Dr. Johnson wagging his finger at Fanny Burney, and this volume is indeed character-mongering on the happiest and most extensive scale. Fanny, a quiet, modest young woman, set the Thames most thoroughly on fire with her novel ‘Evelina’, butit is her private diary which lives today – a brilliantly observed panorama of the ‘age of personality’. Sir Joshua Reynolds, Burke, Sheridan and the ‘Grand Cham’ himself are all illuminated in its pages, which range in subject from the trial of Warren Hastings in Westminster Hall to Brussels on the eve of Waterloo. Chased in Kew Gardens by George III, romantically wed to a French emigre general, Fanny’s eventful life – recreated in this selection – is vivid with humour and truth. (Folio Society 1961)

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression No. 161
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 1961
• Red Buckram Hardback, 315 pp
• Illustrated with portraits and prints in b/w
• Size 220 x 140mm, 900g

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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