Tag Archives: Fanny Burney

Madame D’Arblay

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Cambridge Library Collection

An update to a much earlier blog: you may be interested to know that we have just reissued the seven volumes of Fanny Burney’s diary and letters, edited by her niece Charlotte Barrett (1786–1870) and first published between 1842 and … Continue reading →

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The Remarkable Burney Family

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Cambridge Library Collection

Fanny Burney – wrote novels nobody reads any more, was lady-in-waiting (actually, ‘Second Keeper of the Robes’) to Queen Charlotte but hated court life (including being chased around the gardens of Kew by George III during one of his ‘mad’ … Continue reading →

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