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Fanny BurneySaturday 15 June 2002
Fanny Burney the novelist and diarist celebrated her 250th anniversary this week.


She was the best known author of her generation. Her novels like Evelina and Cecilia, admired by writers like Byron and Jane Austen.
How is then that the writer who Virginia Woolf crowned the mother of English fiction, is relatively unknown today? To discuss Burney's illustrious career, Martha is joined by writer Kate Chisholm and founder of the Burney Society Paula Stepankovsky.
The Burney Society


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