Fanny Burney is considered one of Britain’s first female novelists, writing sharp satirical stories which poked fun at the foibles of fashionable society a few decades before Jane Austen. She was a frequent visitor to Brighton, often staying here as … Continued
Samuel Johnson, the writer, lexicographer and wit, was born on 18 September 1709. Johnson visited Brighton on several occasions in the late eighteenth century, as his friends Henry and Hester Thrale owned a house at the bottom of West Street. … Continued
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