I am Frances Burney, I was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. In 1786–1790, I held the post of "Keeper of the Robes" to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George III's queen. In 1793, aged 41, I married a French exile, General Alexandre d'Arblay. After a long writing career that gained her a reputation as one of England's foremost literary authors, and after wartime travels that stranded me in France for over a decade, I settled in Bath, England, where I died on 6 January 1840. The first of my four novels, Evelina (1778), was the most successful and remains my most highly regarded, followed by Cecilia (1782), and also wrote a number of plays. I wrote a memoir of my father (1832), and is perhaps best remembered as the author of letters and journals that have been gradually published since 1842, whose influence has overshadowed the reputation of my fiction, establishing me posthumously as a diarist more than as a novelist or playwright.