Frances Burney , also known as Fanny Burney and after her marriage as Madame dArblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in Lynn Regis, now Kings Lynn, England, onJune 1752, to musical historian Dr. Charles Burney and Esther Sleepe Burney . The third of six children, she was selfeducated and began writing what she called her scribblings at the age of ten. In 1793, aged 42, she married a French exile, General Alexandre DArblay. Their only son, Alexander, was born in 1794. After a lengthy writing career, and travels that took her to France for more than ten years, she settled in Bath, England, where she died onJanuary 1840.
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