Victoria Glendinning
A True Heroine of Her Time
Fanny Burney who was born in 1852, is one of those figures of whom most people have heard, but about whom rather little is generally known. Her first two novels, Evelina and Cecilia, astute and risqué comedies of manners, were immediately popular, though when she told her father she was writing a book ‘he could not help laughing’, and it is for her diaries that she is most enjoyed today.
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