No writer is more excruciating than Frances Burney. At her best she moves readers to squirm or to shut their eyes. The account of her mastectomy, performed with only a wine cordial for anesthetic, has ...
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At the age of 8, Fanny Burney, the future author of four exceedingly long novels, several plays and oceans of diaries and journals, was still unable to read. Her family, fond of her though they were, ...
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