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 , … society. People > 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, … 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 …
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