Frances Burney, English novelist and playwright (died 1840)

Frances Burney

English novelist, diarist and playwright (1752–1840)

Frances Burney, also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. In 1786–1790 she held the post of "Keeper of the Robes" to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George III's queen. In 1793, aged 41, she married a French exile,…