Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… 1970): ‘her conversation the best, of any lady with whom I ever had the happiness to be acquainted’, p. 978; Frances Burney, The Journals and Letters of Frances Burney (Madame D’Arblay), ed. Joyce Hemlow, 12 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), IV, p. 107. Like other members of … and to further the career of her sons and later grandsons. Thus she (unsuccessfully) tried to get Dr Charles Burney appointed as organist in the Queen’s Band in 1782 and collected subscriptions for Frances Burney’s novel Camilla …
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