- Social life and customs, Fiction, Sources, Debutantes
First published in 1778, this novel of manners tells the story of Evelina, a young woman raised in rural obscurity who is thrust into London’s fashionable society at the age of eighteen.
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Classical in form, warm, resolved and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Fanny Burney, Frances Burney
- First published
- 1778
- Pages
- 427
- Publisher
- Macmillan, Independently Published, J. M. Dent and Company
- Editions
- 204
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9781722330538
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“OH author of my being!-far more dear”
About Fanny Burney · 1752–1840
An English novelist, diarist and playwright.
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