Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… sociability that reached right into the privacy of the home, whether in the provinces or the metropolis. Thanks to local book clubs and circulation libraries, literature could be harvested for self-improvement even in a cottage. Accordingly, … in life to, in her words, ‘visit [...] the Brains of our fellow creatures’ ( Memoirs , I, 157-58). Not only could books be read everywhere, they offered untold opportunities for those willing to write them, too. Ultimately, it was by …
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