BURNEY, Fanny (1752-1840). Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay , edited by Charlotte Barrett, preface and notes by Austin Dobson. London: Macmillan, 1904-1905. 6 volumes, 8°. Titles printed in red and black, portraits, facsimiles and views. Original red cloth (vols. I and VI dampstained). PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE EDITOR TO A LEADING LITERARY CRITIC OF THE DAY, inscribed in volume one: 'Edmund Gosse FR. Austin Dobson Nov. 23, 1904'. Gosse's books were sold by Sotheby's in 1928-1929. WITH SUBSEQUENT PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION BENEATH, 'Ottoline Morrell from Virginia Woolf Sept. 28th 1932'. Fanny Burney, the author of Evelina , was once called 'the mother of English fiction' by Virginia Woolf, herself perhaps the most important woman novelist of the 20th-century. Each wrote hundreds of letters and voluminous diaries, and the posthumous publication of these led to greater fame and notoriety. These records are now among the principal sources of information about the web of literary, artistic and political friendships of each woman's time and social milieu. Woolf admired Burney not only as a writer but for her independence of mind and for the friendships she maintained with leading figures of the day. The gift of this edition to her friend and sometimes social rival suggests a similar admiration for her as a literary hostess and patron.
BURNEY, Fanny (1752-1840). Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay , edited by Charlotte Barrett, preface and notes by Austin Dobson. London: Macmillan, 1904-1905. 6 volumes, 8°. Titles printed in red and black, portraits, facsimiles and views. Original red cloth (vols. I and VI dampstained). PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE EDITOR TO A LEADING LITERARY CRITIC OF THE DAY, inscribed in volume one: 'Edmund Gosse FR. Austin Dobson Nov. 23, 1904'. Gosse's books were sold by Sotheby's in 1928-1929. WITH SUBSEQUENT PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION BENEATH, 'Ottoline Morrell from Virginia Woolf Sept. 28th 1932'. Fanny Burney, the author of Evelina , was once called 'the mother of English fiction' by Virginia Woolf, herself perhaps the most important woman novelist of the 20th-century. Each wrote hundreds of letters and voluminous diaries, and the posthumous publication of these led to greater fame and notoriety. These records are now among the principal sources of information about the web of literary, artistic and political friendships of each woman's time and social milieu. Woolf admired Burney not only as a writer but for her independence of mind and for the friendships she maintained with leading figures of the day. The gift of this edition to her friend and sometimes social rival suggests a similar admiration for her as a literary hostess and patron.
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