Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… on the literary circles of the day, but because family and friends considered it dangerously close to a satire on the bluestocking salons, she was advised to suppress it. 5 4 . The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, 5 vols, eds … the novel, she stays with one of her guardians at fashionable Portland Place (where he would have been neighbour to the bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu), and – after enjoying the balls and masquerades there with some trepidation – she is …
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