FRANCES (BURNEY) (1752-1840).-Novelist, _dau._ of Dr. Charles B., a musician of some distinction, was _b._ at Lynn Regis, where her _f._ was organist. Her mother having died while she was very young, and her _f._, who had come to London, being too busy to give her any attention, she was practically self-educated. Her first novel, _Evelina_, _p