Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… small sociable circles and dinner parties. Yet in the 1750s, while her husband served on the Board of Admiralty, her ‘drums’, 4 as she called them, became more elaborate, and the question who to ask a more delicate affair. In another … or learned man amongst his own society and friends, at his table and round his domestic hearth, from whence a man should draw the best sources of social felicity’ (Aspinall-Oglander, I, 206). Maintaining a public character had its price: she … 1970): ‘her conversation the best, of any lady with whom I ever had the happiness to be acquainted’, p. 978; Frances Burney, The Journals and Letters of Frances Burney (Madame D’Arblay), ed. Joyce Hemlow, 12 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, …
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