D'Arblay, Frances Burney. English novelist. Born in 1752, the third child of Dr. Charles Burney. From the age of 18 to 26 she worked at "Evelina," which appeared anonymously in 1778, and won her fame and the admiration and friendship of Dr. Johnson. "Cecilia" (1782) was equally successful; her works gained her a position at the court in 1786, and in her "Diary" she gives a graphic description of its decorous dullness. In 1793 she married General D'Arblay, a French refugee. Her later works are "Camilla" (1796), "The Wanderer" (1814), and the "Memoirs" of her father. Died 1840.

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