L. B. Seeley links passages from Fanny Burney’s diaries and letters into a continuous life: her musical father Dr. Burney and the family home, the anonymous triumph of Evelina, friendships with Samuel Johnson, Mrs. Thrale and the Streatham circle, and the trying years as Second Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, where a crotchety superior rules over every gown.
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