Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… conflict, contrasting them to what she perceived to be the flaws of early nineteenth-century society. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Fiction Masquerade Memoirs Theatre Women Best known as a novelist and chronicler of London’s … towns at a distance from the metropolis; where there are few suspensive subjects or pursuits of interest, ambition, or literature, that can enlist either imagination or instruction into conversation’. 1 However, by the early nineteenth … 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, Burney praised public libraries which …
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