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Fanny Burney : the Mother of English Fiction

Nigel Nicolson

As the author of "Evelina" and "Cecilia" both of which created new dimensions for the novel Fanny Burney is as well remembered for her memoirs of Johnson her mastectomy and her account of the Battle of Waterloo. This portrait of Burney paints a picture of this forward-looking woman.>

  • Classification : Biography & Memoir
  • Pub Date : MAY 6, 2002
  • Imprint : Short Books
  • Page Extent : 112
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781904095187
  • Price : INR 350
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Nigel Nicolson

Nigel Nicolson (Author) Nigel Nicolson, the younger son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, was a publisher, a Member of Parliament, an editor (including six volumes of Virginia Woolf's letters and three of his father's diaries) and the author of many books on history, politics, architecture and literature. He lived at the family home, Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, now a property of the National Trust, until his death in 2004.

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