Sarah Harriet Burney
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I must scribble, or I cannot live—but her later works especially rank high for quality and interest.
was an early nineteenth-century novelist and letter-writer (though she began to publish before the end of the eighteenth century). Her achievements in both these genres have been obscured by those of her sister Frances. She wrote from financial necessity—- BirthName: Sarah Harriotte BurneyShe was baptised under this spelling, which was also used on her gravestone.
- Nickname: Sally
- Indexed: Sarah Harriet Burney