"I have read that Fanny Burney had inspired Jane Austen and it's easy to see, by reading her work, this is true! They are really so much alike! As for Jane's fans all those 3 volumes are very delightful and important piece of literature indeed!!"

I show in my book "Jane Austen - a New Revelation" that the author of both Fanny Burney and Jane Austen's novels was Jane Austen's cousin and sister in law, Eliza de Feuillide. She could not publish under her own name as she was the illegitimate daughter of Warren Hastings, the Governor General of India.