English Literature / Unit 11 ENL 1029 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Fanny Burney: Evelina
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The idea
Frances Burney published Evelina anonymously in seventeen seventy-eight, an epistolary novel of a young lady's "entrance into the world," a girl raised in rural seclusion who meets London society. Her satirical novels of manners anticipated Jane Austen, who read and enjoyed them.
In practice
A young lady enters society.
Where people slip
Burney links Richardson to Austen.
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