Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… by becoming authors that both Dr Charles Burney and his daughter found the doors of the literary world open wide, and fashionable London circles willing to receive them ( Memoirs , I, 25). 1 . Memoirs of Doctor Burney, arranged from his … 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, after the death of the first Mrs Burney, into a house in St. Martin’s Street, … Cecilia is only ever drawn out when spoken to directly. For much of the novel, she stays with one of her guardians at fashionable Portland Place (where he would have been neighbour to the bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu ), and – after …
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