" Today Fanny Burney's venture into authorship would not be
questionable. She was, after all, a daughter of a celebrated
musician, and the Burney family was know to the circle of Samuel
Johnson and Hester Thrale. Yet as Kristina Straub ably shows, the
public recognition which followed the publication of her first
novel placed Fanny Burney in a situation of disturbing ambiguity.
Did she become famous or notorious? Was she a prodigy or a freak?
In this study of Burney, Straub not only describes and analyzes the
disturbing transition of a writer's self-awareness as a woman and a
literary artist from private to public terms, but also reveals in
Burney's works a hitherto unacknowledged complexity."
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