Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… Francisco Burney, ‘Fanny Burney’,c.1785, © National Gallery Portrait of London, NPG 2634. Abstract The many-volume publication of Frances Burney’s diaries and journals situates her as one of the leading chroniclers of eighteenth-century … circulation libraries, literature could be harvested for self-improvement even in a cottage. Accordingly, Burney praised public libraries which enabled readers from all stations in life to, in her words, ‘visit [...] the Brains of our fellow … as a fan maker with a shop of her own in London – not an occupation the aspiring Burney clan was later on keen to make public. 2 After some ten years, the family moved back to London in 1760, first to fashionable Poland Street, and then, …
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