![]() A later novel, Cecilia (1782), contained some sentences that deeply impressed the young Jane Austen: Her first novel, Evelina, was published anonymously in 1778, coincidentally the year in which she concluded her first set of journals. Burney always described her work as “scribblings”, a typically English self-deprecation. Her life was dogged with ill health and mixed fortune, but she pioneered a career as a female writer to flourish both as a playwright (eight plays) and also as the author of some much-admired satirical fiction (four novels). She was born, Frances, the third daughter of Charles Burney, a fashionable dilettante, in the reign of George II. Any list of great English diarists must include John Evelyn, Lord Byron, Francis Kilvert, Virginia Woolf – and Fanny Burney (1752-1840). ![]() Moreover, in English life and letters, which often celebrate the virtues of privacy and solitude, the diary is a quintessential national form of self-expression. ![]() ![]() ![]() Diaries, or journals, will be the one factual genre to which any reader can relate. ![]()
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