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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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Spas [ Health ]
… 18th-Century Medical and Literary Texts: From John Floyer’s The Ancient Psychrolousia Revived (1702) to Fanny Burney’s Evelina (1778)”, in Annick Cossic and Patrick Galliou (eds). Spas in Britain and in France in the Eighteenth and … gendered interactions are known to us through literature, especially the novels of Jane Austen and Frances Burney ( Evelina ), in which young women accompany older men or women to a spa town (usually Bath or Bristol Hotwells). These …
Assemblies | Fiction | Health | Leisure | Medicine | North America | Spa
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Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
Conduct | Conventions | Dance | Gender | Kissing | Propriety | Touch
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
Correspondence | Fashion | Fiction | Gambling | Politics | Suicide
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… at Court. A year later, she began to patronize Dr Burney’s daughter, the young Frances Burney, whose first novel, Evelina , had made such a splash. Frances, an inveterate diarist, would chronicle many of the debates at Streatham, and …
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Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
… versions of social occasions, from walks with the crowds to more intimate suppers in lodges. In Fanny Burney’s novel Evelina (1778), where the young heroine discovering London is taken to Vauxhall by relatives, she admires the attractive …
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… epistolary novels of the time, from Richardson’s Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa (1748) to Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778), apart from displaying the action and characters’ through exchanges in a letter form, additionally …
Clubs | Family | Fiction | Streets
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… 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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Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis [ Aristocracy ]
Correspondence | Education | Emigration | French Revolution | Memoirs | Salons
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