Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… © National Gallery Portrait of London, NPG 2634. Résumé The many-volume publication of Frances Burney’s diaries and journals situates her as one of the leading chroniclers of eighteenth-century sociability. She participated in the Sunday … Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies (vol. 38, n° 3, 2015), p. 377-393. Those times are brilliantly captured in the journals and letters of the young Burneys. Frances’s journals during the years 1774-1784 in particular offer a rich source of contemporary salon culture. 4 Her phenomenal …
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