Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… [1782], eds. Peter 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 … almost deferential politeness, while Frances, as part of the second generation to be considered part of the emerging middle classes, had a horror of accepting favours. Their insecurity made them particularly alert to any changes in the … women of the socially mobile classes faced when trying to find appropriate work: barely any professions were open for middle-class women as yet, a problem the successful Enlightenment had not addressed at all. Unlike Burney’s other works, …
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