Fanny Burney
In Our Time
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Burnie's After Publication After Success
It's quite normal for a novelist in the 18th century to publish at least their first novel sometimes all their novels anonymously. Richardson keeps leading copies around so that people who visit who don't know will know or if they do know will raise the topic. She remains incredibly reticent and sort of sits listening to people in her intellectual circles talking about this novel in front of her not knowing it's by her. I think everybody in the late 1770s is going at last another really good novelist we've been waiting. It's almost 20 years since the last good novel trust from Shandy K. Now we've got a good one.
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