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Kate Chisholm was born and brought up in the vicarages of north London. After graduating in History from Edinburgh University she worked in publishing and literary journalism and is now Assistant Literary Editor of the Sunday Telegraph.
'Dr Johnson has more fun and comical humour than anybody I ever saw,' Fanny Burney wrote in her entertaining diary in 1779. She kept a diary from the age of 15, a unique account of Georgian England. We meet characters from Garrick and Reynolds to Wellington and George III (who chased Fanny round Kew Gardens), we see Napoleon inspect his troops in 1802, and watch the wounded carried back from Waterloo. Outwardly demure, Fanny's comments are pithy and her popular novels, Evelina and Camilla, contain biting criticism of contemporary society. Daughter of music teacher and composer Dr Burney, petite and shy, she led an unexpectedly challenging life. She became a Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, married an aristocratic French emigre, Generale d'Arblay, lived in Paris after the Terror, had her only child aged 42 and lived into her eighties, surviving to meet Sir Walter Scott and see Queen Victoria on the throne. Kate Chisholm's lively biography is most welcome. (Kirkus UK)
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