Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 born in King’s … and unwilling hostess ( The Wanderer , 98, 101). The novel, thus, may be read as a description of the difficulties women of the socially mobile classes faced when trying 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 …
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