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Article: The birth of Fanny Burney: June 13th, 1752. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
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- June 1, 2002
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June 13th, 1752
ONE OF THE SHARPEST observers of her time, which stretched from Dr Johnson's day to that of Dickens, was born in lodgings in Chapel Street in the Norfolk town of Kings Lynn, the third of six children of Charles Burney and his wife Esther. Christened Frances, she was known as Fanny or Fannikin in the family.
Charles Burney had retreated to Lynn for his health the year before, in his mid-twenties, after his promising career as a musician in London had been cut short by illness. He took a post as organist at a Lynn church, St Margaret's, and bitterly lamented his exile from the capital to this provincial backwater and a congregation of ...
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