Burney, Sarah Harriet (1772–1844)
Burney, Sarah Harriet (1772–1844)
English novelist. Born Aug 29, 1772, in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England; died Feb 8, 1844, in Cheltenham, Gloucester, England; dau. of Charles Burney (musicologist) and his 2nd wife Elizabeth (Allen) Burney; half-sister of Fanny Burney.
Had 1st success with novel Clarentine (1798); while working as a governess and companion, also wrote Geraldine Fauconberg (1808), Traits of Nature (1812), The Shipwreck (1815) and Tales of Fancy (1816–1829); her writing was often compared to that of her half-sister.
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