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Evelina Frances Burney

Evelina By Frances Burney

Evelina by Frances Burney

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The Broadview edition is based on the second edition of the novel (1779), which incorporates Burney's revisions and corrections. Its appendices include contemporary reviews of Evelina as well as eighteenth-century works on the family and on comedy.

Evelina Summary

Evelina: or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World. In a series of letters by Frances Burney

The reputation of Frances Burney (1752-1840) was largely established with her first novel, Evelina. Published anonymously in 1778, it is an epistolary account of a sheltered young woman's entrance into society and her experience of family. Its comedy ranges from the violent practical joking reminiscent of Smollett's fiction to witty repartee that influenced Austen.

The Broadview edition is based on the second edition of the novel (1779), which incorporates Burney's revisions and corrections. Its appendices include contemporary reviews of Evelina as well as eighteenth-century works on the family and on comedy

Evelina Reviews

Longtime admirers of Frances Burney's delightful eighteenth-century comedy of manners, Evelina, will no doubt rejoice in Broadview's impressive new edition of the work, here ably introduced and annotated by Susan Kubica Howard. Readers new to the novel have a treat in store. Evelina remains, quite simply, the most accomplished and insouciant comic novel written by an Englishwoman before Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and coruscates anew in the handsome presentation it is given here. - Terry Castle, Stanford University

Susan Kubica Howard's research is impressively detailed, yet accessibly presented so that the edition will serve both seasoned scholars in the field and readers who may be encountering Evelina for the first time. - Audrey Bilger, Claremont McKenna College

About Frances Burney

Susan Kubica Howard is an associate professor of English at Duquesne University, and the editor of Charlotte Lennox's The Life of Harriet Stuart, Written by Herself (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Frances Burney: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Evelina

Introduction to Appendices

Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews

  1. London Review (February 1778)
  2. Monthly Review (April 1778)
  3. Westminster Magazine (June 1778)
  4. Gentleman's Magazine (September
  5. Critical Review (September 1778)

Appendix B: Works on Family

  1. George Savile, Marquis of Halifax, The Lady's New-Year's-Gift
  2. William Fleetwood, The Relative Duties of Parentsand Children, Husbands and Wives. Masters andServants
  3. Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, Correspondencewith her Granddaughter, Diana, Duchess of Bedford,1732-35
  4. Samuel Richardson, Letters Written To and For ParticularFriends, on the Most Important Occasions
  5. [John Hill], On the Management and Education ofChildren
  6. Samuel Richardson, A Collection of the Moral andInstructive Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions, and Reflexions,Contained in the Histories of PAMELA, CLARISSA, and SIRCHARLES GRANDISON
  7. James Nelson, An Essay on the Government of Children
  8. Eliza Haywood, The Female Spectator
  9. Lady Sarah Pennington, An Unfortunate Mother's Adviceto Her Absent Daughters
  10. Portia [pseud.], The Polite Lady
  11. Hester Mulso Chapone, Letters on the Improvement ofthe Mind
  12. Clara Reeve, Plans of Education
  13. Mrs. Bonhote, The Parental Monitor
  14. Thomas Gisborne, An Enquiry into the Duties of theFemale Sex
  15. Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Practical Education
  16. Francis Burney D'Arblay, Memoirs of Doctor Burney

Appendix C: Works on Comedy

  1. Anon., Pasquil's Jests, Mixed with Mother Bunches Merriments
  2. Joseph Addison, The Spectator
  3. Anon., Scoggin's Jests
  4. [John Mottley], Joe Miller's Jest Book
  5. [Corbyn Morris], An Essay Towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule
  6. Eliza Haywood, The Female Spectator
  7. Jane Collier, An Essay on the Art of IngeniouslyTormenting
  8. Christopher Anstey, The New Bath Guide
  9. [James Quin], Quin's Jests
  10. Anon., An Essay on Laughter
  11. William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Comic Writers

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Additional information

GOR003000662
9781551112374
155111237X
Evelina: or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World. In a series of letters by Frances Burney
Frances Burney
Broadview Editions
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Broadview Press Ltd
20000930
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