Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… into conversation’. 1 However, by the early nineteenth century, all that had long changed, Burney insisted. The Enlightenment had successfully illuminated even the most rural areas, with the help of two basic sociable tools: … to find appropriate work: barely any professions were open for middle-class women as yet, a problem the successful Enlightenment had not addressed at all. Unlike Burney’s other works, this one was a failure, on the one hand because her …
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