Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… the friends or acquaintances with whom he [Dr Burney] associated in the world at large, would be nearly to ransack the Court Calendar, the list of the Royal Society , of the Literary Club, of all the assemblages of eminent artists; and … Sabor and Margaret A. Doody (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988). Both of these novels tend to be classified as ‘courtesy novels’ (Joyce Hemlow) or ‘novels of manners’ (Patricia Meyer Spacks) to indicate their concern with etiquette … snub on the part of her ‘superiors’, particularly during the time she was caught up in the world of Queen Charlotte’s Court, where she served as a Keeper of the Robes from 1786-1791. 9 . Joyce Hemlow, ‘Fanny Burney and the Courtesy Books’, …
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