Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 … Court, where she served as a Keeper of the Robes from 1786-1791. 9 . Joyce Hemlow, ‘Fanny Burney and the Courtesy Books’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (vol. 65, 1950), p. 732-61; Patricia Meyer Spacks, …
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