Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney

Frances Burney (1752–1840) was the most successful female novelist of the eighteenth century. Her first novel Evelina was a publishing sensation; her follow-up novels Cecilia and Camilla were regarded as among the best fiction of the time and were much admired by Jane Austen. Burney''s life was equally remarkable: a protegee of Samuel Johnson, lady-in-waiting at the court of George III, later wife...