Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… Keywords Fiction Masquerade Memoirs Theatre Women Best known as a novelist and chronicler of London’s literary circles, Frances Burney was in fact born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, in 1752, and spent the first eight years of her life … that both Dr Charles Burney and his daughter found the doors of the literary world open wide, and fashionable London circles willing to receive them ( Memoirs , I, 25). 1 . Memoirs of Doctor Burney, arranged from his own manuscripts, from … the astronomer’s observatory on top. Here, indeed, they were at the very centre of contemporary London’s sociable circles, and Dr Burney moved in most of them: But to enumerate the friends or acquaintances with whom he [Dr Burney] …
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