Daily Archives: February 20, 2011

Evelina and a sense of history

I was rereading Fanny Burney’s first novel, Evelina, recently. It had been a while; I’d retained a memory of a boring central romance surrounded by vivid characters, some comically broad, others standard for the period. The hero and heroine were … Continue reading


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