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Burney herself, who didn't marry until she was 41, had a sharp eye for the vagaries of men other than her adored father, a noted music historian whose worshipful biography is her least interesting work. Harman offers a shrewd blend of social history and psychological analysis to explicate the complicated Burney family dynamic and its impact on Fanny. Her father was a self-made man who proudly joined the circle of rising middle-class merchants and intellectuals shaking up English culture, including Samuel Johnson and his patrons Henry and Hester Thrale. They would also be friends to Fanny, who had a much less sheltered upbringing than most 18th-century young ladies yet was always anxious to appear unshakably proper. To that end, she polished up the truth in her diaries and letters, and Harman's careful disentangling of fact from wishful thinking and manipulation in those documents is a model of the biographer's craft. Her smooth account of Burney's life captures a complex, conflicted woman and makes vivid for modern readers a key moment in the development of the novel. --Wendy Smith
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