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… biographies, memoirs, and autobiographies—genres frequently intermingled—expanded. Novels such as Frances Burney ’s Evelina (1778) and Tobias Smollett’s The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) featured Drury Lane as a setting … Harold Gray, Theatrical Criticism in London to 1795 (New York: Benjamin Blom, 1931, 1964). 27 . See Frances Burney, Evelina, or A Young Lady’s Entrance into the World, 3 vols (London: T. Lowndes, 1778), vol 1, p. 28; for Tabitha …
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