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Article: Recognition for a lost literary voice; The Arts: With a memorial at Poets' Corner, Fanny Burney is at last receiving the honour due to an important 18th century author.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 13, 2002
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Byline: KATE CHISHOLM
WHEN the window dedicated to the memory of Frances ( popularly known as Fanny) Burney is unveiled late this afternoon in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, her name will join Jane Austen, George Eliot and the Bronte sisters as the only women deemed worthy of inclusion in that monument to English literature. The Burney Society (which has long campaigned on her behalf) will be out in force to witness this long-overdue tribute to the writer whose diaries have given us such an extraordinarily vivid portrait of life in the 18th century.
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