Frances Burney

1776 (age 52)

One of eight children of musicians Esther "Hetty" Burney (1749–1832) and Charles Rousseau Burney (1747–1819), Frances became a governess at the age of 18, and worked in various such posts for the rest of her life. This included periods in the households of Sir Thomas Plumer and Sir Henry Russell. In 1818, she published Tragic dramas. Chiefly intended for representation in private families: to which is added, Aristodemus, a tragedy, from the Italian of Vincenzo Monti. These are too bombastic for modern taste. Having suffered attacks of jaundice throughout her life, Frances Burney died in 1828, in Bath.

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Frances Burney was a niece of the novelists Frances Burney and Sarah Burney, and granddaughter of the musicologist Charles Burney.

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One of eight children of musicians Esther "Hetty" Burney (1749–1832) and Charles Rousseau Burney (1747–1819), Frances became a governess at the age of 18, and worked in various such posts for the rest of her life. This included periods in the households of Sir Thomas Plumer and Sir Henry Russell. In 1818, she published Tragic dramas.

Chiefly intended for representation in private families: to which is added, Aristodemus, a tragedy, from the Italian of Vincenzo Monti.

These are too bombastic for modern taste. Having suffered attacks of jaundice throughout her life, Frances Burney died in 1828, in Bath.

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Malek Adhel, the Champion of the Crescent (1818).

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