Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 mother to daughter in small towns at a distance from the … of her favourite sister Susan in 1801, now cover French sociable circles to some extent, and she would maintain many friendships with French aristocrats over the next years. To preserve her son from conscription, and from having to fight … Frances engineered their escape in 1812, arriving back home with the manuscript for a last novel, The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties , in her trunk. The first three, and best liked, of Burney’s novels all focus on an ingénue heroine …
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