Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… also found 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 … 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 literary circles, Frances Burney was in fact … Lynn, Norfolk, 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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