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BATH AND ITS INTELLECTUALS

Fanny Burney: Life Inspiring Art

Marie-Louise Luxemburg, BRLSI Proceedings Editor

Wednesday, May 7th 2008, 7.00 for 7.30pm

Fanny Burney’s daring and disturbing novels drew admiration from the likes of Dr Johnson, Edmund Burke and Virginia Woolf, and she was said to be Jane Austen’s favourite writer. She first came to Bath in 1780 as a young celebrity, fleeing two months later after anti-Catholic riots. In a long and eventful life, she witnessed the ‘madness of King George’, met Napoleon while exiled in France and dressed the wounds of soldiers at Waterloo. She died in 1840, and is buried with her family in Walcot, Bath

On Wednesday May 7th, BRLSI Proceedings Editor Marie-Louise Luxemburg will give a talk entitled “Fanny Burney: Life Inspiring Art”, illustrating how Fanny’s extraordinary life influenced her writing.