Claire Harman - Fanny Burney, A Biography, HarperCollins, 2000, First Edition

Claire Harman - Fanny Burney, A Biography, HarperCollins, 2000, First Edition, First Printing

The biography details Burney's journey from a self-educated young woman who hid her "scribblings" from her father, to a literary celebrity following her anonymously published 1778 debut novel, Evelina. It covers the immense tension Burney faced between public authorship and Georgian societal standards of female respectability

Black cloth in fine condition.  No dust jacket.  Text firm and clean.

Weight    870g.   Pages    430.