author
Fanny Burney
1752–1840
A sharp-eyed observer of Georgian society, she helped shape the English novel of manners with stories that are witty, socially exact, and still lively to read. Her novels and journals also preserve an unusually vivid picture of literary and court life in late 18th-century Britain.
19 Audiobooks
Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3
by Fanny Burney
Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1
by Fanny Burney
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
by Fanny Burney
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1
by Fanny Burney
Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2
by Fanny Burney
The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 1 of 5)
by Fanny Burney
The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 4 of 5)
by Fanny Burney
The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 5 of 5)
by Fanny Burney
Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy
by Fanny Burney
The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 3 of 5)
by Fanny Burney
The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 2 of 5)
by Fanny Burney
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2
by Fanny Burney
Camilla; or, A Picture of Youth
by Fanny Burney
About the author
Born in King's Lynn in 1752, Frances Burney—better known as Fanny Burney—grew up in a cultured household as the daughter of music historian Charles Burney. Largely self-educated, she became famous after publishing Evelina anonymously in 1778, a novel whose humor and close attention to social behavior made it a landmark in English fiction.
She followed it with Cecilia and Camilla, and she also wrote plays, journals, and letters that later became as important to her reputation as the novels themselves. For several years she served at the court of Queen Charlotte as Keeper of the Robes, an experience that deepened her firsthand knowledge of rank, ceremony, and the pressures placed on women.
Later in life she married Alexandre d'Arblay, a French émigré officer, and was also known as Madame d'Arblay. Today she is remembered not only as a successful novelist, but as a keen diarist whose writing offers a warm, intelligent, and often very funny record of her age.