Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… all that had long changed, Burney insisted. The Enlightenment had successfully illuminated even the most rural areas, with the help of two basic sociable tools: conversation and the press. The tide of ignorance is turned; and not there … blasted – must live forever ( Memoirs , I, 96-97). The necessary ‘mental cultivation’ had come about, she suggests here, with the help of the press, by which she understood all kinds of printed matter, though she did not dare name novels. … before he married the mother, Esther Sleepe, who at that time, and even after their marriage, worked as a fan maker with a shop of her own in London – not an occupation the aspiring Burney clan was later on keen to make public. 2 After …
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