Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… theatrical performance of Colley Cibber’s The Provok’d Husband is turned to her shame by her ill-meaning and unwilling hostess ( The Wanderer , 98, 101). The novel, thus, may be read as a description of the difficulties women of the … Interestingly, The Memoirs of Dr. Burney also mention a ‘job opportunity’ that Burney herself declined: the political hostess Frances Crewe had suggested a literary weekly paper, to be called ‘The Breakfast Table’, during the bitter years …
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