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Giddy Miss Brown

Fanny Burney — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:49:51 +0000

At dinner we had three persons added to our company,–my dear father, Miss Streatfield, and Miss Brown. Miss Brown, as I foresaw, proved the queen of the day. Miss Streatfield requires longer time to make conquests. She is, indeed, much more really beautiful than Fanny Brown; but Fanny Brown is much more showy, and her [...]

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An Evening at Sir Joshua Reynolds’s

Fanny Burney — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:51:30 +0000

Now to this grand visit, which was become more tremendous than ever because of the pamphlet business, and I felt almost ashamed to see Sir JOShua, and could not but conclude he would think of it too. My mother, who changed her mind, came with me. My father promised to come before the Opera was [...]

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