Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… mental cultivation is as slowly gradual, and as precarious of circulation, as Genius […] still the work of general improvement is advancing so universally, that the dark ages which are rolling away, would soon be lost even to man’s joy … or the metropolis. Thanks to local book clubs and circulation libraries, literature could be harvested for self-improvement even in a cottage. Accordingly, Burney praised public libraries which enabled readers from all stations in … Alicia, ‘”She knew no one with sufficient intimacy”: Female Friendship in Camilla and Hester Chapone’s Letters on the Improvement of the Mind ’, The Burney Journal (vol. 17, 2020), p. 42-60. Olleson, Phillip (ed.), The Journals and Letters …
Fiction | Masquerade | Memoirs | Theatre | Women
Encyclopedia