This article is about the novel. For people and fictional characters, see Evelina (given name). For the hospital, see Evelina London Children's Hospital.
1778 novel by Fanny Burney
Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
Fourth edition (1779), title page for Vol II
Author
Fanny Burney
Illustrator
John Mortimer
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Novel
Publisher
Thomas Lowndes
Publication date
1778
Pages
455
Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World is a novel written by English author Fanny Burney and first published in 1778. Although published anonymously, its authorship was revealed by the poet George Huddesford in what Burney called a "vile poem".[1]
In this 3-volume epistolary novel, title character Evelina is the unacknowledged but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat, and thus raised in rural seclusion until her 17th year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns to navigate the complex layers of 18th-century English society and come under the eye of a distinguished nobleman with whom a romantic relationship is formed in the latter part of the novel. This sentimental novel, which has notions of sensibility and early romanticism, satirizes the society in which it is set and is a significant precursor to the work of Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, whose novels explore many of the same issues.
^W. P. Courtney, 'Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)', rev. S. C. Bushell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 6 Feb 2010
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