D'ARBLAY, MADAME

D'ARBLAY, MADAME
   a distinguished novelist, daughter of Dr. Burney, the historian of music; authoress of "Evelina" and "Cecilia," the first novels of the time, which brought her into connection with all her literary contemporaries, Johnson in chief; left "Diary and Letters" (1752-1840).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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