Literary Lives: A Literary Life

Thaddeus, J.

Emphasizing Frances Burney's professionalism and her courage, Janice Farrar Thaddeus shows the protean writer who recognised her abilities and exercised them, always carefully shaping her career. Though now frequently depicted as retiring, even fearful, Burney forced on her reading public themes they were scarcely ready for, flamboyantly mixing genres, writing comically about intimate violence. Not content in old age to be merely a literary icon, she privately recorded with increasing clarity the moments when the world lacerates the self.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-07-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780312229818

DOI: 10.1057/9780230288324

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 263