#OTD in 1752 Frances Burney was born. She "was a novelist, diarist and…

#OTD in 1752 Frances Burney was born. She “was a novelist, diarist and playwright. In all, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty-five volumes of journals and letters. She has gained critical respect in her own right, but she foreshadowed such novelists of manners with a satirical bent as Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Burney

Burney at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2010

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