Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… the sociability of King’s Lynn as characterized by ‘inertia’, lambasting the mid-eighteenth century provinces for their ‘love of frippery, or feebleness of character among the females’, a feebleness, she argued, which was ‘bequeathed from …
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