Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… in the company of the leading musicians and artists of her day. Many of these experiences also found their way into her novels. Late in her career, in 1832, she wrote the now infamous biography of her father, Memoirs of Dr Charles Burney , … here, with the help of the press, by which she understood all kinds of printed matter, though she did not dare name novels. Imagination, however, was as important as instruction : both, to her, served to enliven conversation and … Frances Burney, 2 vols. (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995). Both Frances’s first and second novels, Evelina and then Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782), reflect the young Burney sisters’ experiences of …
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