Fanny Burney
Fanny Burney was born in Lynn Regis, England, on June 13, 1752, to Charles Burney and Esther Sleeper. Fanny Burney one of the six children. Father was a famed musical historian, composer, and musician. Her father had a doctorate in music from Oxford. She mother, warm and intelligent women, was Catholic daughter of a French refugee. She contacts the music about songs, play, and poems at an early age influence of a father. She exposed to the intellectuals and leering artists. At the eight years old, she did not learn the alphabet so her father believes that she was dyslexia and did not read until ages. Burney’s mother dead when Burney was ten years old. Father was favored her older sister Esther and Susanna by intelligence and beauty.
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She meets many well-known artists such as David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, James Boswell, Henry Thrale, and Samuel Johnson who visited the Burney home in Stratham through her father. She influenced by those people she corresponds improvement of reading and writing skill. She letters to her sister Susanna. During the presence of her step-mother, Burney felt pressure to give up her writing. Also, she even burnt her first manuscript, ’the History of Caroline Evelyn ’, however, she remained diligent keep going to the diary writing. Fanny Burney Published First novel, Evelina: Or The History of A Young lady’s Entrance into the World by Thomas Lowndes who found the story interesting after reading its first volume in 1778. Burney chose to do so anonymously which she had written in secret. It was not considered appropriate for a woman to enter herself in the public sphere through literature.so she initials refused by the publish Robert Dodsley. Burnet was carefully disguised handwriting to avoid because publishers were familiar with her handwriting through her work as the copyist for her father. It published without Burney father’s knowledge. Her father did discover she was the book’s author but, acknowledged admiration for the positive