Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… read everywhere, they offered untold opportunities for those willing to write them, too. Ultimately, it was by becoming authors that both Dr Charles Burney and his daughter found the doors of the literary world open wide, and fashionable … Evelina is never at a loss when it comes to distinguish true politeness from mere showy insensibility, or so her author insists. Frances’s own anxieties are nevertheless visible both in her rejection of the Branghtons and their ilk, … style – the first, more vivacious manuscript that delighted Frances’s siblings was heavily redacted by the young author before publication. 7 6 . Evelina, or The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World [1778], ed. Steward J. …
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