Madame d'Arblay

Madame d'Arblay (1752-1840), popularly known as Fanny Burney, was a distinguished novelist, daughter of Dr. Burney, the historian of music. She was authoress of "Evelina" and "Cecilia," the first novels of the time, which brought her into connection with all her literary contemporaries, Johnson in chief. She left "Diary and Letters".

Wisdom & Quotes

• Traveling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building hereafter seeing Italy.

- Cecilia

Joseph de Maistre