The daughter of a musician and music historian, Fanny Burney came to London with her family in 1760. Probably dyslexic, she had to learn on her own while her sisters studied in Paris. Her father’s fame brought...
■ Evelina, or the History of A Young Lady’s Entrance into the World, London, T. Lowndes, 1778; The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame d’Arblay), 12 vol., Oxford, OUP, 1972-1984.
