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...Fanny Burney, who knew Mai through her brother James Burney, an officer on the Resolution, was charmed: “He is so polite, attentive and easy, that you would have thought he came from some foreign court.”...
...At the centre of The Club was the literary giant Samuel Johnson, and the man who immortalised his words of wisdom: Johnson’s biographer, the prolific diarist, drunkard and philanderer James Boswell....
...They record that in many respects he treated women as equals, and encouraged the literary ambitions of the young Fanny Burney....
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