A Degree of Prudery: A Biography of Fanny Burney
by: Hahn, Emily

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, faded dust jacket, 340 pages, b&w illustrations. A witty and penetrating study of a fascinating woman and her fabulous time. Fanny wrote her first book, Evelina, anonymously. and for 6 months heard guesses made as to its authorship. Hahn writes of Fanny with affection but with characteristically satirical enjoyment of the fluttering femininities and masculine struttings of the period but depicts the real genius of Fanny. A lively picture of a prim lady, and an entertaining view of 18th century literary London. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.