… Already a few months after her release, her sociable side re-emerged and she became a part of the exiled circle of French emigrants around Mme de Stael and the Comte de Narbonne-Lara at Juniper Hall through her sister Susan, who had … decade. Frances’s journal-letters, though much shorter after the death of her favourite sister Susan in 1801, now cover French sociable circles to some extent, and she would maintain many friendships with French aristocrats over the next … Crewe had suggested a literary weekly paper, to be called ‘The Breakfast Table’, during the bitter years of the French Revolution, which was to cover titbits of literature and ‘to work at mind and morals ’ ( Memoirs, III, 231-34), to be …