Word: burney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first glance there seems to be something badly awry in Emily Hahn's choice of 18th Century Novelist Fanny Burney as the subject for a biography. Miss Burney kept a journal which frequently tells how the turn of the talk had forced her to dart from a room with blushing cheeks. She would have run like a deer from her cigar-smoking biographer, who, in China to Me, documented her position as one of the most uninhibited girls on the China Coast...