Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… that 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, … in the world at large, would be nearly to ransack the Court Calendar, the list of the Royal Society, of the Literary Club, of all the assemblages of eminent artists; and almost every other list that includes the celebrated or active … language, her opinions concerning the value of political debate still resound today . Thus, she wrote about The Literary Club : Dissensions through politics must necessarily be endured; nay, cannot rationally be lamented; they are the …
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