… Burney, whose first novel, Evelina , had made such a splash. Frances, an inveterate diarist, would chronicle many of the debates at Streatham, and provided a female friendship that filled a gap in Hester Thrale’s so far male-dominated life. 6 …
… The letters also document that they spoke about their private lives as well as their plans. Being avid readers, they debated literary texts they had enjoyed as well as theatrical performances. Both Berry and Baillie were thus part of a …
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… here 132. The changes in the system of patronage were not just experienced by the writers of the time, but also hotly debated. Korshin claims that the intellectual community in eighteenth-century England was ‘tantalized’ by the subject …
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