Evelina

''Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!'' Frances Burney''s first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine''s entry into society, womanhood and, inevita...