Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… of character among the females’, a feebleness, she argued, which was ‘bequeathed from mother to daughter in small towns at a distance from the metropolis; where there are few suspensive subjects or pursuits of interest, ambition, or …
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