Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
Fanny Burney
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds. A country-bred girl of eighteen comes to London and writes home about every humiliation, in letters that made the whole town read her. Burney published it anonymously at twenty-five, having copied the manuscript in a disguised hand so the printers would not know her writing; Burke sat up all night with it, and Johnson was loud in its praise. Fifty-nine plates of painting from Gainsborough to Rowlandson, 1730 to 1850, picture the rustic girls, country lanes and crowded rooms of the world Burney's heroine leaves behind and enters.
Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds. A country-bred girl of eighteen comes to London and writes home about every humiliation, in letters that made the whole town read her. Burney published it anonymously at twenty-five, hav...
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Fanny Burney (1752-1840) was an English novelist and diarist born in King's Lynn. She served five years as Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, married a French émigré general, survived a mastectomy without anaesthetic and wrote an account of it, and kept a journal for seventy years. Her works include Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, and the Journals and Letters.
Fanny Burney (1752-1840) was an English novelist and diarist born in King's Lynn. She served five years as Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, married a French émigré general, survived a mastectomy without anaesthetic and wrote an account of it, and kept a journal for seventy years. Her works...
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