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Article: All you need to know about the books you meant to read: EVELINA (1778) by Fanny Burney
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 13, 1996
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EVELINA (1778)
by Fanny Burney
Plot: Evelina is 17 and beautiful with "a certain air of
inexperience and innocence". Abandoned by her father, she is
brought up in the country by her wise and sententious guardian, the
Rev Mr Villars. Now of marriageable age, she is invited by a friend
of Villars to stay in London. Here she learns to mind her p's and
q's, and falls in love with the courtly Lord Orville. But her
relatives seep with coarseness and snobbery and indulge in
slapstick, and Evelina is stalked by the rakish nincompoop Clement
Willoughby, who would be the villain of the piece were he not such
a mess of affectation. Finally, Sir John Belmont acknowledges his
deserted daughter and proves ...
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