Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… Image Edward Francisco Burney, ‘Fanny Burney’,c.1785, © National Gallery Portrait of London, NPG 2634. Résumé The many-volume publication of … their way into her novels. Late in her career, in 1832, she wrote the now infamous biography of her father, Memoirs of Dr Charles Burney , which , despite its flaws, may serve as a portrait of the by then bygone days of sociable … in 1752, and spent the first eight years of her life there. Some eighty years later, when compiling her Memoirs of Dr Burney (1832), she remembered the sociability of King’s Lynn as characterized by ‘inertia’, lambasting the …
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