Anonymously published in 1778, Evelina became an immediate best-seller. A piercing and at times riotous portrait of eighteenth-century society, Bur-ney's novel of manners let the readers who flocked to it (among them Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, Richard Brinslev Sheridan, and Sir Joshua Re,molds) witness their own reflections. This Norton Critical Edition reprints the third-edition text of this influential novel, which incorporates all of Burney's changes and is the first to use the expanded subtitle "The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World."

Preface

The Text of Evelina

Contexts and Contemporary Reactions

CONDUCT BOOKS

 Modesty

 Passivity

 Wit

 Learning

 Aging

 Dangerous Connections

 Inequality

 Love

Amusements

Theatre

 Dancing

  Madame d'Arblay [Frances Burney] · Publication of Evelina

  Frances Burney · Extracts from the Journals and Letters

  Madame d'Arblay [Frances Burney] · Dedication to The

    Wanderer

REVIEWS

From the London Review

From the Monthly Review

From the Westminster Magazine

From the Critical Review

From the Gentleman's Magazine

Criticism

Anna Letitia Barbauld · Miss Burney

William Hazlitt · [The Spirit of Cockneyism]

   · [On Burney's Characters]

John Wilson Croker · [Review of The Wanderer]

Thomas Babington Macaulay · [On Bumey's Art]

   · [On Bumey's Morality]

Virginia Woolf · [The Mother of English Fiction]

Joyce Hemlow, [The Composition of Evelina]

Martha G. Brown · Fanny Burney's·Feminism: Gender or

     Genre?

Kenneth W. Graham · Cinderella or Bluebeard: The Double

     Plot of Evelina

Kristina Straub · Evelina: Marriage as the Dangerous Die

Gina Campbell · How to Read Like a Gentleman: Burney's

     Instructions to Her Critics in Evelina

Susan Fraiman · Getting Waylaid in Evelina

Margaret Anne Doody · Beyond Evelina: The Individual Novel

     and the Community of Literature

Frances Burney: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography