an English novelist, the daughter of musicologist and composer Charles Burney, and half-sister of the novelist and diarist Frances Burney (Madame d'Arblay). Sarah Burney wrote seven works of fiction. It seems that Sarah Burney's father was unenthusiastic about her first work, Clarentine, a novel of manners. Her third novel, Traits of Nature, was a popular success, the first edition selling out in four months.
