Evelina, or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world : authoritative text, contexts and contemporary reactions, criticism [eBook - hoopla]

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Evelina, or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world : authoritative text, contexts and contemporary reactions, criticism

(2017)

By: Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840

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Norton critical edition

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[United States]: Interactive Media, 2017
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9781787243064 (electronic bk.) MWT11967766, 1787243060 (electronic bk.) 11967766

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English

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Norton critical edition

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In London, Evelina's beauty and ambiguous social status attract unwanted attention and unkind speculation. Ignorant of the conventions and behaviors of 18th-century London society, she makes a series of humiliating and humorous faux pas that further expose her to social ridicule. She soon earns the attentions of two gentlemen: Lord Orville, a handsome and extremely eligible peer and pattern-card of modest, becoming behavior; and Sir Clement Willoughby, a baronet with duplicitous intentions. Evelina's untimely reunion with her grandmother and the Branghtons, her long-unknown extended family, along with the embarrassment their boorish, social-climbing antics cause, soon convince her that Lord Orville is completely out of reach

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