… Gallery, NPG D14563. And yet, the Burney salon can be situated somewhere on a continuum between the private and the public sphere, between literary and musical entertainment, even between work and leisure: ‘Pleasant as salon gatherings … and the United Provinces (1772), which was geared to non-specialist readers, did he gain access to literary circles: ‘My publication was honoured with the approbation of the blue-stocking families at Mrs Vezey’s [sic], and Mrs. Montagu ’s, … visitors, and they were equally aware of the fact that the lives of most of those would eventually be of interest to the public. Figuratively and literally, the Burney daughters’ journals were written in a closet before the family’s move to …