Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… is separated from her party and accosted by prostitutes. She finds David Garrick’s performance as King Lear at the Royal Drury Lane Theatre too impressive to describe, but her enjoyment of an opera is spoiled by her ill-bred relatives, the …
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