Fanny Burney
PROFESSOR T. D. ADAMS, in his weekly readings from 4YA, usually produces for us either the unusual, or the dearly familiar, Possibly Fanny Burney may be classed under the first heading, for most listeners. Although we might be able to place her in the correct period, and clothe her, in our mental picture, appropriately enough according to the style of the time, I doubt whether many of us could quote anything which, she wrote, This Professor Adams did for us, evoking thereby a very vivid feminine personality. Her description of the vapid condescending dancing partner was as wittily true for this age as for her own, and her portraits of various Court celebrities were shrewd and critical. But the gem of the lot was a passage where a certain Mr. Boswell, on the way from church, pestered her for some letters Dr. Johnson had written her, saying he required them for a Life which he was writing. Fanny Burney refused to part with the letters, snubbed the author, and afterwards described the incident on paper in an unmercifully humorous manner.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 334, 16 November 1945, Page 8
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182Fanny Burney New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 334, 16 November 1945, Page 8
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