Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… ideas, and even 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 … whom he [Dr Burney] associated in the world at large, would be nearly to ransack the Court Calendar, the list of the Royal Society, of the Literary Club, of all the assemblages of eminent artists; and almost every other list that includes … she is separated from her party and accosted by prostitutes. She finds David Garrick’s performance as King Lear at the Royal Drury Lane Theatre too impressive to describe, but her enjoyment of an opera is spoiled by her ill-bred relatives, …
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