Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… at the Burney’s home almost verbatim, or so it seems to the reader. After the publication of her first novel, Evelina , or the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World , in 1778, Frances would perform similar feats as part … Burney, 2 vols. (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995). Both Frances’s first and second novels, Evelina and then Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782), reflect the young Burney sisters’ experiences of London-based sociability: Evelina approaches London as a debutante from the country, getting as lost in the mazes of Vauxhall as in the unwritten …
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