Frances Burney was a famous English novelist, diarist and playwright. Burney's novels explore the lives of English aristocrats, and satirize their social pretensions and personal foibles, with an eye to larger questions such as the politics of female identity. She has gained critical respect in her own right, but she also foreshadowed such novelists of manners with a satirical bent as Jane Austen and Thackeray.
Novels:
Evelina
Cecilia
Camilla
The Wanderer
Plays:
The Witlings
Journals & Diaries:
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay
Other Works:
Brief Reflections Relative to the French Emigrant Clergy
Biography:
Fanny Burney by Austin Dobson