Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… hamlet, nay every cottage in the kingdom; and though 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 … reached right into the privacy of the home, whether in the provinces 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 …
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