Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… lessons a week’. 7 Although the Sunday concerts were leisure in some respects, they also meant business: the higher the reputation of Dr Burney’s soirées – that is, of the people who attended as well as those who performed – the better for … Frances Burney, later d’Arblay, and her younger sisters Susan and Charlotte). The Burneys were well aware of the reputation of their visitors, and they were equally aware of the fact that the lives of most of those would eventually be …
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