Evelina, or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world / Frances Burney ; edited and introduced by Edward A. Bloom

Author: Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840
Uniform Title: Evelina
Additional Titles: History of a young lady's entrance into the world
Published: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1968.
Physical Description: xlii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Additional Creators: Bloom, Edward A. (Edward Alan), 1914-1994

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Oxford English novels

Summary

A work by turns hilarious and grim, "Evelina" tells the story of a young woman's education in the ways of the world; it vividly renders life in eighteenth-century England and remains a much-read classic.

Subject(s)

London (England)—Fiction
Young women—Fiction
Socialites—Fiction
Debutantes—Fiction
Debutantes
Socialites
Young women
England—London

Genre(s)

Satire
Fiction

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references [page xxxix].

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